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The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand Volume IV - 2012 30  in English […] I stood in front of the wash basin […] I heard a knock on the door … the King called for me […]. I shall never forget that moment. I felt terribly sick. Both my heart and my legs were trembling. My hands were completely cold, and my head was in a whirl. […] I stepped down the stairs after the King into a big crowd. […] My ears heard people shout “Queen, Queen smile !, ” […] While I was feeling queasy and dizzy, someone held a small tape recorder to my mouth and asked, “What is your impression of New York?” It seemed strange to ask someone who had just stepped off an aeroplane such a question, but I gave an answer to the inquirer and he or she seemed to be satis fi ed with it. I could not even remember my answer […]. 19 For the young royal couple, the trip to the United States of America was a prelude to a long and persistant friendship with the US President, from since President Eisenhower to President Goerg W. Bush. TIME Magazine (11.July 1960) reported on the warmest reception of President Eisenhower in the White House and characterized the Queen of Thailand as “the enchantingly elegant and the most feminine Queen Sirikit, 27” 20 In Europe, on the fi rst day of Their Majesties’ arrival in Germany, the Queen was very excited to see big crowds of people, who joyfully greeted them along the sides of the roads of the royal route. The German people were smiling and looked happy to see the royal couple from the Oriental. Some had words of blessing and some shouted “Long live Thailand”. Even after the King and the Queen had entered a building, the crowd still refused to go home. The gatherings grew larger and they kept shouting the names of Their Majesties. The Queen went out on to balcony with King Bhumibol, smiling and waving to the crowd for a while, but, they would still not go home, so that 19 In Memory of the State Visits of His Majesty the King, The Royal Compositions of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, footnote 9, p. 96, 98. 20 Queen Sirikit : Glory of the Nation , published by the National Identity Of fi ce, The Of fi ce of the Permanent Secretary, The Of fi ce of the Prime Minister, Royal Thai Government, fi rst published 2011, German version, footnote 5, p. 72. Queen Sirikit on Her Majesty’s State Visits in 1960 and 1962