Queen wanted Barack Obama to LEAVE Buckingham Palace banquet as she wanted to go to bed

Ex Chancellor George Osborne was given the unenviable job of telling Obama that the party was over

PUBLISHED DEC 3, 2021

Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II during a State Banquet in Buckingham Palace on May 24, 2011 in London, England (Photo by Lewis Whyld - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

It's difficult for any host to get rid of dinner guests, but it's even more difficult when your guest is the head of the free world. The Queen once requested former UK Chancellor George Osborne to ask former President Barack Obama to leave a state banquet at Buckingham Palace as she wanted to go to bed.

"'Will you tell the President it's late and I want to retire to bed,' the Queen asked to me," Osborne shared his memories with fellow St Paul's School alumni. "Barack Obama was having a great time with his friends, slamming back vodka martinis, and I was thinking to myself, 'Oh, my God, I'm going to have to go tell him to go home.'" Osborne made the remarks to Lord Ed Vaizey, a former Tory MP and minister, at an event hosted by the Old Pauline Club, an association for former pupils of St Paul's School.

Osborne said Obama got his revenge at a G8 summit years later when he kept calling Osborne as "Jeffery".

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Obama and his wife Michelle were the guests of honor at a banquet in Buckingham Palace in May 2011. However, former President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK did not go without a diplomatic problem as the billionaire businessman boasted on television about having "automatic chemistry" with Queen Elizabeth. The former US president complimented the British monarch as a "spectacular woman," but denied fist-bumping her when he arrived at Buckingham Palace for the ceremonial greeting.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II during a State Banquet in Buckingham Palace on May 24, 2011 in London, England. The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and his wife Michelle are in the UK for a two day State Visit. (Photo by Lewis Whyld - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Trump also said that people had observed how well he and the Queen had connected during an interview with Fox News, which aired after his return to the United States. "The encounter with the Queen was fantastic," he continued, "I suppose I can say I really got to know her since I sat with her many times and we had automatic chemistry, which you will understand."

"I did not fist-bump the Queen," Trump said when asked by Fox News' Laura Ingraham if he did. "But I had a great relationship, and we had a really great time." "Some claim they've never seen the Queen have a greater time, a more lively time than this," he concluded.

"We had a period we were talking solid straight, I didn’t even know who the other people at the table were, never spoke to them. We just had a great time together."

During his visit to London, the controversial billionaire-turned-politician was greeted with a ceremonial welcome and a spectacular state banquet at Buckingham Palace.