Jill Biden will lead a U.S. delegation to the ceremony, as U.S. officials note that no president has ever attended a British coronation.
Biden’s decision to skip the May 6 coronation is not unusual, say U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the trip has not yet been announced. No previous U.S. president has attended a British monarch’s coronation, and for the last coronation — Queen Elizabeth II’s, in June 1953 — President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a delegation in his place.
“It seems pretty remiss, and I’m tempted to say more fool him for not coming,” Bob Seely, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, Biden has yet to sit down with Charles since he took the throne in September, and missing the coronation could prove to be awkward, especially as Biden will travel to Northern Ireland, one of the king’s realms, and Ireland, his ancestral homeland, in just over a week — a trip during which Biden is not expected to meet with Charles.
“As many of you know, I, like all of you, take pride in my Irish ancestry,” Biden said at the White House St. Patrick’s Day celebration this year. “And as long as I can remember, it’s been sort of part of my soul.”
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