about Diana during interviews with shock jock Howard Stern<\/a>, calling her a \u201csupermodel beauty\u201d. This came after Diana had passed away following the car crash in Paris in 1997.<\/p>\n\u201cWhy do people think it\u2019s egotistical of you to say you could\u2019ve got with Lady Di?\u201d Stern asked during a 1997 interview. \u201cYou could\u2019ve got her, right? You could\u2019ve nailed her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I could have,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
Stern brought up Diana in another interview in the year 2000. \u201cWould you have slept with her?\u201d Stern asked. \u201cWithout even hesitation,\u201d Trump responded. \u201cShe was crazy, but those are minor details.\u201d Trump said he had Diana on a list of 10 women he\u2019d like to have slept with.<\/p>\n
Trump was far more modest in his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback in which he wrote, \u201cI only have one regret in the women department\u2014that I never had the opportunity to court Lady Diana Spencer.”<\/p>\n
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Interestingly, in 2016, Trump denied he was ever interested in Diana, telling Piers Morgan: \u201cTotally false. It was so false. I liked her. I met her in New York once standing in line and we were all shaking hands and that was the only time I ever met her. I read that story that I was calling her or something and it was so false.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did respect her,\u201d he said. \u201cBut no interest from that standpoint. But I did meet her once and I thought she was lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s not all.<\/p>\n
Michael Wolff, a long-time chronicler of Donald Trump, claims that the current US president was in a twisted competition with Jeffrey Epstein to see which of them could sleep with Diana.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had a competition, Trump and Epstein,\u201d Wolff claimed. \u201cOf who would be the one, the first one to sleep with Princess Diana? … They just understood, what could you get from these people? Both Trump and Epstein. What can you get from somebody, is the question you would always ask about anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Questions about Trump and the late disgraced financier continue to persist amid rumours that Trump\u2019s name was redacted from the \u2018Epstein files\u2019.<\/p>\n
Fascination for British Royals<\/strong><\/p>\nTrump has long held a fascination for the British Royal Family.<\/p>\n
As a six-year-old boy, Trump is said to have watched the coronation of Queen Elizabeth on the black and white television sitting alongside his mother, who was Scottish.<\/p>\n
Trump in his book The Art of the Deal recalled his mother\u2019s fascination with the British Royal Family and its impact on him.<\/p>\n
He got \u201chis sense of showmanship\u201d from her, he said, calling her \u201centhralled by the pomp and circumstance, the whole idea of royalty and glamour\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Donald Trump in 2019 was hosted by Britain\u2019s then Queen Elizabeth. Reuters<\/b><\/p>\n
Fiona Hill, an ex-Trump aide, wrote in a book that he was obsessed about meeting Queen Elizabeth. It was the \u201cultimate sign that he, Trump, had made it in life\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 2019, after he was hosted by Queen Elizabeth while he was US president, Trump told Morgan: \u201cI was walking up and I was saying [to First Lady Melania Trump] \u2018Can you imagine my mother seeing this scene?\u2019 Windsor. Windsor Castle.\u201d<\/p>\n
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADA royal welcome<\/strong>Trump and Melania received a dazzling welcome at Windsor Castle. The Trumps were greeted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla outside Windsor, the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. The castle has been home to British kings and queens for a thousand years.<\/p>\nThe president and first lady arrived in their helicopter Marine One, which flew from Winfield House, the US ambassador\u2019s residence in London, where they stayed Tuesday night. They were welcomed by the King and Queen as well as a band playing The Star-Spangled Banner. They chatted for a bit outside the building with Prince William and Kate, the Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
The royals then accompanied Trump and Melania in a ceremonious horse-drawn carriage ride through the vast grounds of the Windsor estate. King Charles and Trump travelled in the Irish State Coach, with Queen Camilla and the first lady in the Scottish State Coach.<\/p>\n
King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Trumps took their places on the dais as the state colours were lowered and the United States national anthem played. Trump saluted and the first lady placed her hand on her chest.<\/p>\n
Trump was then escorted by an officer as he walked along a line of soldiers in red tunics and bearskin hats. Charles accompanied him, following a short distance behind. He and the president chatted for a bit before they returned to the Royal Dais together.<\/p>\n
A guard of honour, comprising soldiers and officers from the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards and Scots Guards, marched past Trump and King Charles.<\/p>\n
The formal ceremonial welcome in the castle quadrangle featured the largest ever guard of honour for a state visit to the UK, officials said. There were around 1,300 servicemen and women from the Army, Royal Navy and RAF in the welcome.<\/p>\n
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King Charles and Queen Camilla gave Trump a bespoke, hand-bound leather volume to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, made by the Royal Bindery in Windsor Castle, as well as the Union Flag that flew above Buckingham Palace on the day of Trump\u2019s inauguration earlier this year.<\/p>\n
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he Trumps were greeted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla outside Windsor, the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world. Reuters<\/b><\/p>\n
Melania was given a silver and enamel bowl, crafted using traditional silversmithing techniques by Northern Irish artist Cara Murphy, and a personalised Anya Hindmarch handbag.<\/p>\n
The Trumps were also given a silver photograph frame engraved with the King and Queen\u2019s joint cypher. The Trumps gave King Charles a replica of a President Eisenhower Sword. Buckingham Palace said this was \u201ca reminder of the historical partnership that was critical to winning World War II\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also symbolises the enduring values and cooperative spirit that continues to define the relationship between the United States and Great Britain,\u201d the palace said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Queen Camilla was given a Tiffany & Co. vintage 18K gold flower brooch \u2013 incorporating the Queen\u2019s birthstone of rubies as well as Melania\u2019s birthstone of diamonds.<\/p>\n
Cameras were not allowed to cover the Trumps\u2019 meal in the State Dining Room.<\/p>\n
Starmer will later join Trump and the men will watch a flypast by F-35 jets and Red Arrows over the castle in a tribute to the military ties between the two nations.<\/p>\n
Trump ahead of the trip had praised his \u201cfriend\u201d King Charles. \u201cHe represents the country so well, such an elegant gentleman,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe\u2019s been a friend of mine for a long time, and everybody respects him, and they love him,\u201d the US president said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump is in the United Kingdom for a state visit. Trump, who is making his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,32,146522,1760,7710,519,146912,13174,146913,146914],"class_list":{"0":"post-432017","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-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-donald-trump-uk","13":"tag-king-charles","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-trump-in-uk","17":"tag-trump-news","18":"tag-trump-uk-visit","19":"tag-trump-visit-to-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115221587964987547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432017","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=432017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}