United States presidential visits to the United Kingdom

There have been thirty-three U.S. presidential visits to the United Kingdom by eleven presidents, since the end of World War I in 1918. The United States and the United Kingdom are bound together by shared history, an overlap in religion and a common language and legal system, and kinship ties that reach back hundreds of years, including kindred, ancestral lines among Cornish Americans, English Americans, Manx Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, and American Britons respectively. Today large numbers of expatriates live in both countries.

Table of visits

President	Dates	Locations	Major events
Woodrow Wilson	December 26–28, 1918	London, Carlisle, Manchester	Met with Prime Minister David Lloyd George and King George V.[1]
Harry S. Truman	August 2, 1945	Plymouth	Informal meeting with King George VI.[2]
Dwight D. Eisenhower	August 27 – September 2, 1959	London, Balmoral, Chequers	Informal visit. Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II.[3]
	September 4–7, 1959	Culzean Castle	Rested before returning to the United States.[3]
John F. Kennedy	June 4–5, 1961	London	Private visit. Met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Queen Elizabeth II.[4]
	June 29–30, 1963	Birch Grove	Informal visit with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at his home.[4]
Richard Nixon	February 24–26, 1969	London	Informal visit. Delivered several public addresses.[5]
	August 3, 1969	RAF Mildenhall	Informal meeting with Prime Minister Harold Wilson.[5]
	October 3, 1970	Chequers	Met informally with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Edward Heath.[5]
Jimmy Carter	May 5–11, 1977	London, Newcastle, Sunderland	Attended the 3rd G7 summit. Also met with the Prime Ministers of Greece, Belgium, Turkey, Norway, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and with the President of Portugal. Addressed the NATO Ministers meeting.[6]
Ronald Reagan	June 7–9, 1982	London, Windsor Castle	State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Addressed Parliament.[7]
	June 4–10, 1984	London	Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Attended the 10th G7 summit.[7]
	June 2–3, 1988	London	Met with Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.[7]
George H. W. Bush	May 31 – June 2, 1989	London	Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[8]
	July 5–6, 1990	London	Attended NATO Summit Meeting.[8]
	July 14–18, 1991	London	Attended the 17th G7 summit. Also met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.[8]
Bill Clinton	June 4–5, 1994	Cambridge, London, Portsmouth	Visited U.S. Military Cemetery. Met with Prime Minister John Major. Attended state dinner with Queen Elizabeth II and heads of state and government of Canada, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Belgium. Attended D-Day commemorative ceremonies.[9]
	June 8, 1994	Oxford	Received honorary degree from Oxford University.[9]
	November 28 – December 1, 1995	London, Belfast, Derry	State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister John Major. Addressed Parliament. Delivered several public addresses in Northern Ireland.[9]
	May 28–29, 1997	London	Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and attended a Cabinet meeting.[9]
	May 14–18, 1998	Birmingham, Weston-under-Lizard, London	Attended the 24th G8 summit and the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting.[9]
	September 3, 1998	Belfast, Armagh, Omagh	Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders. Addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly.[9]
	December 12–14, 2000	Belfast, London, Coventry	Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Irish political leaders in Belfast. Met with Queen Elizabeth II; made a speech at the University of Warwick.[9]
George W. Bush	July 18–20, 2001	London, Chequers, Halton, Brize Norton	Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth II.[10]
	April 7–8, 2003	Belfast, Hillsborough	Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the reconstruction of Iraq. Also met with the Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Northern Irish political leaders.[10]
	November 18–21, 2003	London, Sedgefield	State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and stayed at Buckingham Palace, where a formal state reception was held. In lieu of formal address to parliament, gave an address at Banqueting House. Later accompanied Prime Minister Blair on a tour of the latter's constituency in Sedgefield.[10]
	July 6–8, 2005	Gleneagles	Attended the 31st G8 summit.[10]
	June 15–16, 2008	London, Belfast	Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Quartet Representative Tony Blair. In Belfast, met with the Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson and the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.[10]
Barack Obama	March 31 – April 3, 2009	London	Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Attended the G-20 summit meeting.[11][12]
	May 23–26, 2011	London	State visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and stayed at Buckingham Palace where a ceremonial welcome and state dinner was given. Laid a wreath at the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. Addressed a joint session of the British Parliament in Westminster Hall. Met with Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.[11]
	June 17–18, 2013	Belfast, Lough Erne	Attended the 39th G8 summit.[11]
	September 4–5, 2014	Newport	Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.[11]
	April 21–24, 2016	London, Windsor, Watford	Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

See also

• United Kingdom–United States relations
• Foreign policy of the United States
• Foreign relations of the United States

References

1. "Travels of President Woodrow Wilson". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
2. "Travels of President Harry S. Truman". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
3. "Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
4. "Travels of President John F. Kennedy". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
5. "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
6. "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
7. "Travels of President Ronald Reagan". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
8. "Travels of President George H. W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
9. "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
10. "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
11. "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
12. "London Summit".