The Bidens’ travel plans for the May 6 ceremony confirm previous reports that Joe Biden, 80, would stay in the US with Jill Biden going instead.
Biden’s decision not to attend the coronation is not unprecedented.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower did not travel to Elizabeth’s crowning in June 1953, instead sending a delegation that included former Secretary of State George Marshall; Gen. Omar Bradley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and then-California Gov. Earl Warren. The president is already scheduled to visit Belfast and Dublin later this month to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that ended much of the decades-long violence between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
The Bidens did travel to London together to attend Elizabeth II’s state funeral, which was held 11 days after her death on Sept. 8 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland at the age of 96.More than 2,000 guests, including many heads of state, are expected to be invited by the British government to attend the coronation.
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