US president and first lady had to wait as procession of George and Victoria Cross-holders went ahead of them
He may be the world’s most powerful man but the apparent late arrival of the US president,, and his wife, Jill, was not allowed to disrupt the finely tuned choreography of the late Queen’s funeral.
Camera footage shared on social media showed that the Bidens had made slow progress through central London, even being momentarily forced to stop outside a Pret a Manger on Oxford Street. The US president took his seat behind Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, and in front of Petr Fiala, the prime minister of the Czech Republic. Sitting to her husband’s left,The special treatment demanded by the White House was by some way not the most significant diplomatic difficulty facing the earl marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, who was in charge of planning the funeral.
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