More gaffe for Joe Biden: violate protocol and touch King Charles on the arm

More gaffe for Joe Biden: violate protocol and touch King Charles on the arm

Jul 11, 2023 - 11:51
More gaffe for Joe Biden: violate protocol and touch King  Charles  on the arm
More gaffe for Joe Biden: violate protocol and touch King Charles on the arm


During the meeting with King Charles III, the president touches the sovereign's arm in violation of protocol. The President of the United States, Joe Biden visits King Charles in Windsor and breaks royal protocol: he touches his arm during the handshake. First he touches his arm, then his back.A trivial and very common gesture for the American president but which, the media point out, violates the protocol of the British crown.For the New York Post, however, the gesture would not have been voluntary but the umpteenth demonstration of the physical fragility of the 80-year-old commander-in-chief who "in order not to fall" would have clung to Charles III.