As part of Barack and Michelle Obama’s visit to Buckingham Palace in May 2011, the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom He had to ask the then President of the United States to finish dinner and go home. Reason for request? The king was very sleepy and wanted to go to bed. This is the story.
Little or nothing mattered how attractive the Obama family was in their social relations, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom He is a follower of discipline Neither the presence of the President of the United States nor the presence of any other dignitary would alter his plans to sleep at a particular time.
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Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne revealed details of what happened at that dinner more than a decade ago. We were at a state banquet in honor of Barack Obama. The Queen approached me and said: “Are you telling the boss it’s late and I want to go to bed?”“.
The former minister stressed that at that time he felt “terrified” at the necessity of taking responsibility for conveying that message to Barack Obama, because according to what he saw, I was having more than a good time in dinner. “It was like, ‘Oh my God, I’ll be the one to go and say go home,'” she recalls.
Obama visited the United Kingdom in May 2011. The President of the United States and First Lady Michelle Obama They were the guests of honor At a state banquet at Buckingham Palace. Obama also visited the UK in 2011 and 2016, but without dinner.
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