There will not be a private meeting between the president and king over the summer due to their conflicting schedules, despite the king proposing one in his initial invitation.<\/p>\n
A Buckingham Palace aide told the BBC<\/a>: \u201cHis Majesty has known President Trump for many years and looks forward to hosting him and the First Lady later this year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the government was \u201creally pleased the U.S. president is coming for a second state visit.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump previously made a state visit during his first term in 2019<\/a> and met the late Queen Elizabeth, sparking protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n The occasion will be marked by pomp and pageantry and usually includes a banquet dinner<\/a>. Ongoing refurbishment works at Buckingham Palace mean all state visits will now take place at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n Trump said in April that the U.K. was \u201csetting a date for September,\u201d but the precise dates have not been confirmed.<\/p>\n The Times<\/a> reported on Tuesday that Starmer had brought forward plans for the state visit, overruling the king\u2019s wishes to hold an earlier informal meet and not rush into a formal visit over concerns around Trump\u2019s stated desire to annex Canada<\/a>. The prime minister\u2019s official spokesperson said it was \u201cuntrue\u201d to suggest Keir Starmer had overruled the king\u2019s plans about when the visit would happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will not be a private meeting between the president and king over the summer due to their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[9311,748,1193,32,393,4884,807,13859,1144,712,16,15,49,1764,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-213439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-angela-rayner","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-british-politics","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-keir-starmer","16":"tag-melania-trump","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-wales","23":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114744656195057403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}