Jill Biden has read Prince Harry’s memoir Spare

Jill Biden says Joe Biden will run for president again, but hasn’t formally announced it because he’s been too “busy” running the country, but the first lady, who teaches at a community college in addition to her White House role, isn’t she’s been too busy. to read a bit.

Recently finished Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare revealed during his trip to Africa.

The professor and the prince have a friendship that dates back years. Despite their 33-year age difference, Jill and Harry have formed a bond over their shared interest in veterans’ affairs. And both Bidens have attended Harry’s Invictus Games.

Jill Biden is a voracious reader and longtime bibliophile who has written three books, including Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops, a children’s picture book about military families.

Biden participates in a book club in addition to teaching English at the Northern Virginia Community College. She is the first modern first lady to have a job outside of her duties in the White House.

And he has indicated that the Bidens are looking to spend four more years at the executive mansion, meaning he could soon add campaign events to his busy schedule.

President Biden has not formally said that he will run again in 2024, but has said that he intends to and has taken steps indicating that he will be a candidate.

Asked if her husband will run for a second term, Jill Biden told CNN that she intends to, but has been busy with the war in Ukraine and internal affairs, which is why she hasn’t yet. announced.

“He said he intends to run away,” he said. ‘So, nothing has been planned yet. I think he’s been so busy being in the Ukraine, handling some of the crises at home, so I think, you know, he’s not, he’s putting that first. He is putting America’s business before his own.

She said the Biden family will support whatever the president ultimately decides.

It’s Joe’s decision. And we support whatever he wants to do. If he’s in, we’re there. If he wants to do something else, we’re there too,” he said in the interview that aired Monday morning on CNN.

Asked if there’s any chance she won’t run, Jill Biden said, “Not in my book.”

President Biden is expected to make an announcement this spring about his plans for the 2024 election.

Jill Biden also recently told the Associated Press, when asked if all that was left to do was decide when and where to announce the campaign: “Pretty much.”

The president, who was later asked about his comments, was more careful, saying he had “other things to wrap up before we get into a full-fledged campaign.”

Jill Biden has made military families one of her priorities as first lady through her Uniting Forces Initiative, which she also worked on as second lady.

She and Prince Harry hosted a virtual event for wounded veterans in September 2021, the only event they have hosted together since she became first lady.

The two were originally scheduled to attend the Department of Defense Warrior Games, but the event was canceled due to the COVID pandemic.

Instead, Jill and Harry did a virtual event with veterans.

Their friendship dates back to May 2013 when they met at a reception for wounded American and British soldiers in Washington, DC.

They seemed to strike up an immediate bond when, the following year, Jill traveled alone to London for Harry’s inaugural Invictus Games, where they were photographed smiling together during several of the events.

Harry said he was inspired to found his Invictus Games, a Paralympic-style competition for wounded, sick and injured veterans and members of the armed forces, after a 2013 visit to the Warrior Games in Colorado.

Jill Biden also attended the Invictus Games when they were held in Orlando, Florida in 2016.

And both Jill and Joe Biden attended the Toronto Games in 2017.

Jill Biden wrapped up a five-day trip to Africa this week where she addressed food insecurity caused by drought conditions, championed the virtues of democracy and championed women’s empowerment.

She spoke to young people in Namibia and visited a center that receives US funds to help women with economic opportunities and health services.

In Kenya, she met with women business leaders and discussed safe sex with young people.

The first lady also traveled to a rural village in Kenya to listen to Maasai women describe how their children and livestock are starving. Parts of the Horn of Africa have suffered five consecutive failed rainy seasons and authorities warn the area is on the brink of famine.

Biden pleaded with the nations of the world to help.

We can’t be the only ones. We have to get other countries to join us in this global effort to help these people in the region,’ he said. People are starving.