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Everyone knows that flatulence is a fact of life, though there's little comfort in that when a fart escapes in public and causes embarrassment. Indeed, sometimes the reaction to a fart is more embarrassing than the act itself, as illustrated by the story we will share with you below. It's customary for U.S presidents to pay state visits to the United Kingdom, where they meet with Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family amid the usual pomp and circumstance. During one such visit, according to a story circulating on social media, then-U.S. President Donald Trump was treated to a horse-drawn carriage ride with the queen. This, supposedly, occurred during that ride (from a Facebook post dated Oct. 31, 2021): It's an amusing anecdote to be sure, but before you take it as gospel, consider this variant of the same story posted to Facebook in 2011: And this version, which circulated via forwarded email in December 2003: And this version, featuring President Bill Clinton, which also made the rounds in the early 2000s via forwarded email: Here we have Ronald Reagan sharing a carriage ride with the queen: Clearly, this tale of stately decorum broken by breaking wind, at least as presented in the examples above, is a bawdy contemporary legend, not a historical fact. That having been said, we close with this excerpt from the obituary of Brigadier Sir Gregor MacGregor, 23rd Chief of Clan Gregor, as published in The Telegraph, April 15, 2003:
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