2016年10月12日 · Along with Mrs. Wilson, the President met with King George V, Queen Mary, and the Princess Royal . Together they discussed the upcoming conference and celebrated the holiday season together.On December 31, 1918, the King and Queen accompanied the President and Mrs. Wilson to the train station to go to Dover.

The first visit by an incumbent president to the United Kingdom was made in December 1918 by Woodrow Wilson, and was an offshoot of American diplomatic interactions with the Principal Allied Powers at the conclusion of World War I prior to the Paris Peace Conference.

The first sitting US president to travel to London to meet the monarch was President Woodrow Wilson, in December 1918, and it was quite the occasion.

Copy of original picture taken of Woodrow Wilson riding with King George V on a visit to England

Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 – 3 February 1924) was elected President of the United States based on domestic issues in 1912, and re-elected in 1916. He based his 1916 re-election campaign around the slogan "he kept us out of war", and had worked hard to broker a compromise peace.

Met with Prime Minister Lloyd George and King George V. December 26–31, 1918: France: Paris: Stopover en route to Italy. December 31, 1918–January 1, 1919: Italy: Rome, Genoa, Milan, Turin: Met with King Victor Emnanuel III and Prime Minister Orlando. January 1–6, 1919: Italy: Rome: Audience with Pope Benedict XV: January 4, 1919: France ...

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Woodrow Wilson writes to George V regarding his work with Colonel House and his pleasure at the friendly relationship between America and Great Britain. Source Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

WILSON, Woodrow and KING GEORGE V. Photograph signed ("Woodrow Wilson"), as President and ("George R. I."), as King of England, London, 31 December 1918. 16 x 12 in., with mount. . Signed along lower edge of first mount.

APP Note: The President addressed his remarks to King George V. Woodrow Wilson, Remarks at Buckingham Palace in London, England Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/317503