When the Queen encounters Joe Biden at a reception on Friday she will have met the 13th US president of her long reign, having come face to face with every US commander-in-chief since Dwight Eisenhower – except Lyndon Johnson.
Biden previously met the Queen in 1982 when he was the Democratic senator for Delaware but this will be their first rendezvous since Biden beat Donald Trump to win the White House.
Queen to meet Joe Biden at Windsor Castle on 13 June
Biden, 78, is set to sip tea with the Queen, 95, on Sunday at Windsor Castle after the G7 summit in Cornwall, but they will