40297042 The British national anthem has become a soundtrack for a toast Obama for queen
U.S. President Barack Obama had to raise his voice, saying a toast at the reception of Queen Elizabeth II. As reported by Associated Press, the reason for this was the orchestra, which played the United Kingdom anthem ahead of time. Reception on the occasion of Obama's visit to Britain was at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, May 24. At a dinner party Obama has decided to make a toast to the Queen. But as soon as he began to speak, as the orchestra played "God Save the Queen", drowning out the words of Obama. The U.S. president was not taken aback, and went on to pronounce harvested speech to the national anthem of Great Britain. After completing his monologue quote from Shakespeare, Obama raised a glass in his hand in greeting turned to Elizabeth II. That, however, responded with a restrained smile, continuing to listen carefully to a hymn. Queen raised her glass only after the anthem. Video of the incident can be seen, for example here. Later, commenting on an incident happen to him, Barack Obama has joked that the British national anthem has served his performance a great soundtrack. For its part the British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said that suddenly struck up a hymn to Obama's speech brought a particular crescendo.
