>>2149702 (pb)

One Anon questioned why POTUS didn't use the Beast when visting the queen.

Ahead of time, I wondered how they would handle the logistics of moving the motorcade around to various different places within a short period of time.

Looking at his schedule POTUS was transported between venues by Marine One, which means the Motorcade would have to shadow his movements by road. By US standards, the distances between venues are not far - but traffic wise they may take time.

At Blenheim Palace (Oxfordshire) on Thursday night the Beast was there to meet him, on Friday Morning at Sandhurst Military Acadameny (Berkshire) it was also there.

I didn't see it at Chequers (Buckinghamshire) the next day, the Helipad was close enough to walk direct from Marine One (and grounds secured), but presumably the Motorcade was close by.

Afterwards he flew back to the US Ambassadors residence in London, before flying to Windsor (Berkshire). In theory the Motorcade should have been relatively close to Windsor so should have been in the vicinity.

I did wonder when seeing him arrive in the Range Rover why that was the case. Presumably the security is strong there in Windsor castle, so the area around the helipad could be protected and it was likely it was just a short pickup to take them to the ceremony so the RR was sufficient.

My other theory was that the Beast was already on it's way to Scotland (by transporter plane) for the later arrival, but looking at the arrival there, that doesn't seem to be the case. There were US vehicles there, but no Beast and POTUS used an armoured stretched SUV.