line is long, and yet people are waiting. it s moving quickly. they re getting to see their queen. whether inside or outside the chambers, so many people we ve spoken to here appointed out it s the silence, perhaps, that is so remarkable. silence in nearly every respect. even if you take away the buses in the taxes and general bustle that you find in any great global capital, london s bill is under the approach path to one of the world s busiest international airports, heathrow. airliners fly over the city every minute of every daylight hour every single day, except for this day, when the only sounds were the music of mourning chosen by the queen herself, and military cadence calls. party, slow. march. president biden in the first lady are expected to fly here saturday morning. first american president the king will know as monarch. his mother knew 14, and met 13 of them. more now from cnn s jeff zeleny on the remarkable span of history and presidential personalit
your declaration of independence but it did not for long break our friendship. it was 1976, and a bicentennial celebration at the white house, when her majesty looked beyond any historic tensions to hail a special relationship with the united states. a moment she would laugh about on her next visit. with a gallant disregard for history, we shared wholeheartedly in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the founding of this great nation. for seven decades, the queen has been an enduring rock of the nation s partnership. forging a resilient alliance with the presidency, regardless of who occupied the office. from harry truman to joe biden, an unparalleled bookend of american history. it began on her first visit to washington in 1951, as a 23 -year-old princess. margaret tells me that whenever anyone becomes acquainted with you, the immediately fall in love with you. and so began a u.s. love affair as queen elizabeth went on to meet 12 more sitting presidents during he