WASHINGTON – The President Joe Biden announced Friday that he will attend the funeral of queen elizabeth iiwhose schedule and protocol have not yet been released by the British authorities.
Asked by the press if he will go to the funeral, Biden replied: “Yes, I don’t know what the details are, but I will go.”
The president also said that he has not yet spoken by phone with King Carlos III, 73 years old and the eldest son of Elizabeth II, who went to the country this Friday after his mother died on Thursday at the age of 96.
“I know him, I have not spoken to him, I have not called him,” Biden limited himself to saying after an event in Ohio.
Biden and the first lady, Jill, visited the British Embassy in Washington yesterday to offer their condolences and, in a joint statement, they remembered Elizabeth II as more than a monarch and someone who “defined an era”, helping to strengthen the relationship between Washington and London.
According to the British press, the day of the funeral, which will be televised, could possibly be Monday, September 19, and could be declared a non-working day in the United Kingdom, where leaders from all over the world are expected to attend.
The oldest sovereign in the history of the United Kingdom died on Thursday at the Scottish castle of Balmoral at the age of 96 and after seven decades of reign.
Source: La Opinion
