Trump was ‘very rude’, thought Queen

Good heavens. As the 2024 US presidential campaigns pick up pace, some rather damning revelations have emerged about the impression contender Donald Trump left on Queen Elizabeth II. A new biography serialised in the Mail, A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown, has set out the late monarch’s reflections on meeting the US businessman and former president – and it appears that she was not particularly complimentary…

The pair first met in the summer of 2018, over English tea at Windsor Castle. But despite the civilised setting, the then-President is said to have rather ruffled feathers. It is claimed Trump first kept the Queen waiting for ten minutes in stifling 27 degree heat before discourteously walking in front of her while viewing a guard of honour – leaving the 92-year-old royal some steps behind. The late monarch is described by Brown to have not shied away from voicing ‘a discreet word of disapproval’ about some of the controversial world leaders she met – and the US president was no exception.