Investing whether LBJ really blew off her invite.
season 3, aptly titled"Margaretology," Princess Margaret is presented as a makeshift U.S. ambassador forced to step in when Queen Elizabeth II's efforts to get U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson to England fail. The episode, which culminates in Princess Margaret's successful, if untraditional, negotiation to a financial bailout, suggests that the Queen extended an offer to LBJ to visit more than once—invitations that LBJ rejected or ignored.
It's odd, really, the fact that these two never met."We do not know why. " added the LBJ Library in its statement. The Queenvisit the U.S. in 1991, and met LBJ's wife, First Lady Lady Bird at that time, but didn't meet LBJ; the Johnson administration apparently planed two trips to Europe that may have included a trip to England, but both fell through,Even when LBJ was vice president to President John F. Kennedy, he and the Queen never met , the statement added.
via a page on its website:"Queen Elizabeth II never met President Lyndon Johnson during his presidency and was unable to attend John F. Kennedy's funeral because she was pregnant with Prince Edward.
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