Donald Trump and his wife Melania met the royal family several times during his first term. In 2019, they were hosted for an official state visit, and in 2018, they had a private tea with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle. The 2019 state banquet also saw other royals, including Prince William and Kate Middleton.
Trump is set to visit the UK for a second state visit, following an invitation from King Charles. However, a royal author claimed that Queen Elizabeth found Trump “very rude” during his visit, a claim he later denied. The Queen was also said to have opinions about his marriage to Melania.
Queen Elizabeth found Donald Trump ‘very rude’
Author Craig Brown shared in his book A Voyage Around The Queen that Her Majesty reportedly thought the president was ‘rude’ after spending time with the American.
The Queen was known for keeping her personal opinions private and focused on her duties during her 70 years on the throne. However, she apparently shared her thoughts about The Apprentice star with a guest.
Brown wrote: “During her reign, Her Majesty met many controversial leaders, such as Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Donald Trump, Emperor Hirohito, and Vladimir Putin. She might not have enjoyed their company, and perhaps even expressed some disapproval.
“A few weeks after President Trump’s visit, she told a lunch guest that she found him ‘very rude’, especially because she didn’t like how he kept looking over her shoulder, as though searching for someone more interesting.”
Queen Elizabeth II reportedly believed a conspiracy theory about Donald’s wife Melania Trump (Credit: David Sims/Cover Images)
Queen Elizabeth ‘believed’ Melania Trump conspiracy theory
He also mentioned that Queen Elizabeth supposedly believed in a conspiracy theory about Melania Trump, thinking that the model had an ‘arrangement’ with Donald and didn’t marry him for love.
The reports surfaced just before the 2024 US election, and Donald Trump’s team quickly dismissed the claims, calling them ‘fake news.’
“This is nothing more than fake news designed to use made-up, scandalous lies to sell a book that belongs in the bargain section of the fiction aisle,” a spokesperson stated at the time.
This came after comments from her friend Monty Roberts, who reaffirmed the idea that she didn’t like the president in a documentary titled The Cowboy and the Queen. In the documentary, while watching a new clip of Donald Trump, he said, “the Queen didn’t like him.”
He later confirmed his statement, saying that “her majesty said that.”
Princess Margaret joke ‘annoyed’ the monarch
Then there was a claim that a joke about the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, didn’t sit well with Her Majesty.
According to the Daily Mail, during Donald Trump’s visit to the UK in 2018, he made a comment that reportedly upset Queen Elizabeth II.
Royal expert Richard Eden shared that a source told him: “Trump put his foot in it by saying Margaret must have been a difficult sister. The Queen was very annoyed with this remark, which she viewed as ignorant and hurtful. She always defended Margaret to the hilt.”
But Jack Stooks, a former gardener who once worked for the now King Charles, didn’t believe the story. He told GBNews:
“We know what The Queen was like as a person. We know that during her whole reign, she never put a foot wrong. So why would she suddenly reach a point in her life where she’d say, ‘oh, let’s put my foot wrong’?”
Trump says he was the Queen’s ‘favourite president’
Donald Trump denied any tension with the royal family, claiming he had a great relationship with Queen Elizabeth and even called himself her “favourite president.” He recalled their time at a state dinner and dismissed recent reports as false, calling the writer a “sleaze bag.” Trump said, “She liked me and I liked her,” and insisted others had also heard he was her favorite.
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