The State Visit of the the President and First Lady of America

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The State Visit of the the President and First Lady of America

The King and Queen will host President Trump and First Lady Melania at Windsor Castle on their second State Visit to Britain between the 17th and 19th September - with a State Banquet taking place in St George's Hall

US President Donald Trump will make an unprecedented second state visit to the UK in September.

Trump, who will be accompanied by his wife Melania, was hosted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in June 2019.

Traditionally, US presidents serving a second term - such as Trump - are not offered a state visit. Instead, they are invited for tea or lunch with the monarch, as happened with former presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush.

However, in February Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer handed Trump an invitation from King Charles III, during a White House meeting to discuss a UK-US trade deal. Sir Keir said the invite was "truly historic" and "unprecedented".

Trump said it was a "great, great honour".

Buckingham Palace announced that Donald and Melania Trump had accepted an invitation to pay a state visit to the UK between Wednesday 17 September and Friday 19 September.

The King will host Trump at Windsor Castle because Buckingham Palace is still undergoing significant renovations.

Will post in this thread as the visit progresses. I have to say, the setting of St George's Hall in Windsor Castle for a state banquet in my opinion is a more impressive spectacle than the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace.

Thoughts?

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The President and First Lady are staying at Winfield House tonight, home of the American Ambassador located in Regent's Park, London.

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President Trump is the most Anglophile US president since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

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