Comments by "Scented-leaf Pelargonium" (@scented-leafpelargonium3366) on "Global News"
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This is all reported very wrong! Queen Elizabeth was standing in for her husband HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, who would normally inspect the guards on such occasions, but he had been suffering ill health and was standing down from a lot of his royal duties. When the Duke does this, he always allows the visiting head of state to go before him as a matter of courtesy. On this occasion Her Majesty stood in for the Duke of Edinburgh herself, and so it was right for her to let President Trump proceed before her, and the President would have been briefed beforehand that this was the correct procedure. However, not surprisingly, Mr Trump did wonder for a minute by his momentary pause if this was indeed the case, as it may not have felt right, but the Queen reassuringly led him in the right direction as he was doing the correct thing.
These few seconds of hesitance were broadcast around the world as the President being ignorant and rude, when in fact he was just showing his second nature of being sensitive.
If the Queen was meant to proceed, she would have done so no problem, but acting as the Duke's stand-in the protocol was correct, but the world's media were ignorant of these facts, or refused to acknowledge so as to get a bigger headline. It shows how a lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on! I rarely trust the media at its word nowadays.
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