{"id":214770,"date":"2025-06-26T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214770\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T02:50:14","slug":"president-trump-to-skip-a-preliminary-meeting-with-king-in-uk-and-make-state-visit-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214770\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump to skip a preliminary meeting with king in UK and make state visit later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> plans to make a full state visit to Britain later this year, bypassing a suggestion put forward by King Charles III<\/a> that the two men first meet informally over the summer when both are expected to be in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Complexities in both the monarch\u2019s and the president\u2019s schedules put the kibosh on the idea, Britain\u2019s Press Association reported.<\/p>\n

The hand-signed formal invitation for the state visit, known as the Manu Regia, was hand-delivered to the White House last week by representatives of the British Embassy in Washington.<\/p>\n

The invitation formalizes Trump\u2019s unprecedented second state visit to Britain, which was first suggested in a letter from the king that Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> delivered to the president in February during a meeting at the White House. A date for the state visit has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

The visit is seen as part of Starmer\u2019s effort to curry favor with Trump and lessen the impact of his America First policies on the United Kingdom. But the visit is controversial in Britain, where some lawmakers from Starmer\u2019s Labour Party have questioned whether the honor should be extended to Trump at a time that he is supporting Israel\u2019s war in Gaza and threatening the sovereignty of allies such as Canada and Greenland.<\/p>\n

Charles will face his own challenges during the visit because he is head of state of both the United Kingdom and Canada, which Trump has suggested should become the 51st U.S. state. During a speech to the Canadian parliament last month<\/a>, the king highlighted Canada\u2019s \u201cunique identity\u201d and \u201csovereignty,\u201d while echoing the words of the country\u2019s national anthem when he said \u201cThe True North is indeed strong and free.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a constitutional monarch, Charles acts on behalf of the elected government when he extends invitations for state visits. Still, such visits are coveted by many world leaders because it comes with all the pomp and circumstance that surrounds the royal family.<\/p>\n

Visiting heads of state are normally greeted by the monarch before reviewing a cadre of troops in scarlet tunics and bearskin hats. There is often a ride in a horse-drawn carriage and a glittering state banquet in addition to bilateral meetings with top government officials.<\/p>\n

Trump reveled in the ceremony during his first state visit in 2019, hosted by the late Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a beautiful man, a wonderful man, and we appreciate it,\u201d Trump said of Charles when he accepted the invitation in February. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten to know him very well, actually. First term and now second term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite those warm words, Trump didn\u2019t take Charles up on his offer of an informal meeting this summer at one of the royal estates in Scotland, where the king normally spends his August holidays. Trump is expected to visit his golf courses in Scotland at about the same time.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuite apart from presenting an opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues of mutual interest, it would also offer a valuable chance to plan a historic second State Visit to the United Kingdom\u201d including questions such as \u201clocation and content,\u201d Charles wrote in his preliminary invitation.<\/p>\n

The Times of London reported that Starmer had gone against the wishes of the king by bringing Trump\u2019s state visit forward to September. The newspaper said the palace had been hoping for a more leisurely approach building towards the state visit, amid concern over Trump\u2019s designs on Canada.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Starmer said it wasn\u2019t true that the prime minister had overruled Buckingham Palace on the timing. Geraint Ellis said that when Starmer visited the White House in February, he had been \u201cdelighted to extend\u201d Charles\u2019 invitation for a second state visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to welcoming President Trump to the U.K.,\u201d he said, adding that details of the visit were a matter for the palace.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump plans to make a full state visit to Britain later this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,32955,7730,7731,85414,5293,32,4179,85415,8615,82931,1760,518,285,1763,7710,519,7796,15,11654,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-214770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-canada-government","10":"tag-charles","11":"tag-charles-iii","12":"tag-dave-cameron","13":"tag-diplomacy","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-geraint-ellis","17":"tag-international-news","18":"tag-ken-arnold","19":"tag-king-charles","20":"tag-king-charles-iii","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","23":"tag-royal-families","24":"tag-royal-family","25":"tag-royalty","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-kingdom-government","28":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747396804633212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214770","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=214770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}