Queen Elizabeth and Donald Trump inspect the Guard of Honor.
For 70 years no figure in public life had a greater capacity for patience and nor had that forbearance been tested more often. Yet despite many provocations – and considerable temptation – the late Queen Elizabeth weathered them all with a sturdy omerta.
And when it did, it was usually accompanied by fireworks. Her anger, for example, when David Cameron not once but twice breached official protocol by revealing how he had asked her to intervene in the Scottish referendum and then later disclosed how she had ‘purred down the line’ when he broke the news that the vote to break up the Union had been lost.
What was it about Trump that could have provoked the Queen to abandon the diplomatic niceties for which she was so famous. He did not leave the Palace’s Belgian Suite in the sort of state that some other visiting political leaders had done; nor did he get out a laptop during tea at Windsor Castle, as that Chinese delegation infamously did.
Brown quotes a source saying how ill-mannered she found the US’s 45th President because of the way he looked over her shoulder, as though seeking out someone more interesting.Then there is the shocking remark she is said to have made about the state of the President’s marriage, speculating that Mrs Trump ‘must have some sort of arrangement’ or why else would she have remained married?
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