Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson in the White House at a spectacular dinner that roared on until 1:40 a.m. Margaret and her husband, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, rode the trolley in San Francisco, rubbed elbows with celebrities like Judy Garland and Alfred Hitchcock in Los Angeles, rode horses in Arizona and danced with Lyndon B. Johnson were at loggerheads, the UK was in debt and in need of American approval for a loan and America was embroiled in the Vietnam War just as Britain was shedding its colonial holdings. Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon B. The trip came at a tense time in U.S.-U.K. So Elizabeth II was playing with fire when she sent “The Royal Lightning Rod” on a three-week tour of the United States.
Johnson, Princess Margaret and President Lyndon Johnson pose for photographers in the Queen's room at the White House on November 17, 1965, prior to a dinner-dance in honor of the royal visit.īy 1965, Queen Elizabeth’s sister, Princess Margaret, had established her reputation as the royal most likely to court controversy.
