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Mr Biden and First Lady Jill Biden met the Queen at Windsor Castle yesterday following the end of the G7 summit in Cornwall. The visit included a Guard of Honour and afternoon tea with the monarch, who is said to have asked him about China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Mr Biden lavished praise on the 95-year-old, stating afterwards: “I don’t think she’d be insulted but she reminded me of my mother, the look of her and just the generosity.”
The White House revealed that Mr Biden had met the Queen before – in 1982 when he was a young senator – and it was his own mother who gave him a piece of advice.
In a memoir he published several years ago, he stated that she told him: “Don’t you bow down to her.”
According to reports, he did not bow for her on Sunday – which some saw as a snub, but it is not a breach of royal protocol.
One Twitter user noted: “Aren’t people supposed to bow or curtsy as a form of respect to the Queen? Just curious.”
Another added: “Is there a reason Biden and his wife didn’t bow for the Queen?”
And a third claimed: “They were supposed to curtsy and bow to her. Don’t they have any manors?”
There are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting the Queen, but many people wish to observe the traditional form.
For men, this is a neck bow, while women do a small curtsy, but many world leaders have chosen not to do this before.
The Queen has met every US president since World War 2, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, and there have been a number of blunders.
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It has been a busy weekend for Her Majesty, who met world leaders on Friday when she attended the G7 reception at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
She was then rushed back to Windsor in the evening so she could attend Trooping the Colour.
The official birthday parade to mark the Queen’s 95th birthday was a scaled-down event because of COVID-19 restrictions.
It was also the first official event the Queen has carried out at the castle since Prince Philip’s funeral six weeks ago.
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