United States presidential visits to the United Kingdom and Ireland
Twelve United States presidents have made presidential visits to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
The first visit by an incumbent president to the United Kingdom was made in December 1918 by Woodrow Wilson, and was an offshoot of American diplomatic interactions with the Principal Allied Powers at the conclusion of World War I prior to the Paris Peace Conference.
The first visit by an incumbent president to the island of Ireland was made in June 1963 by John F. Kennedy when he visited the Republic of Ireland.
To date, 40 visits have been made to the United Kingdom and 11 to Ireland.
The United States is bound together with both the island of Ireland and the island of Great Britain by shared history, an overlap in religion and a common language and legal system, plus kinship ties that reach back hundreds of years, including kindred, ancestral lines among Cornish Americans, English Americans, Manx Americans, Irish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, and American Britons respectively.
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy meet with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, London, England (1961)
President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon meet with Prime Minister Edward Heath and Queen Elizabeth II at Chequers (1970)
President Ronald Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (1982)
President George H. W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, London, England (1989)
President Bill Clinton and Prince Philip inspect the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace, London, England (1995)
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton meet with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London, England (2000)
President George W. Bush with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London, England (2001)
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama receive Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Prince Philip at Winfield House, London, England (2011)
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama meet with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Prince Philip at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (2016)
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump meet with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (2018)
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden meet with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (2021)
President Joe Biden meets with King Charles III at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (2023)
