Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and then-US President Donald Trump attend an event on June 5, 2019, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.Daniel LEAL / AFP via Getty Images
Nicole Gaudiano Sep 8, 2022, 2:46 PM, Media: Insider.
Former President Donald Trump expressed his “sincere condolences” in a statement about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, saying he and former first lady Melania “will always cherish our time together with the Queen.”
“What a grand and beautiful lady she was—there was nobody like her!…” he wrote on Truth Social.
The longest-reigning monarch in British history, the queen was 96 when she died on September 8, 2022. She met 12 US presidents total, including with President Harry Truman in 1951 while still a princess. Her meetings with Trump in 2018 and 2019 “were surely the most unusual,” Kitty Kelley, author of “The Royals,” wrote for Insider.
Trump’s 2018 visit to England was met with protests and a giant orange baby balloon resembling the US president in a diaper in London, and he kept the queen waiting when they were supposed to meet for tea. He breached royal protocol in 2019 by placing his hand on the queen’s back during a banquet at Buckingham palace, Kelley wrote.
During an interview with Piers Morgan in April, Trump remembered having a “great time” with the queen sitting next to her at a dinner.
“We talked the whole night, and somebody said ‘We’ve never seen her smile so much.'”
“They said they’ve never seen her have such a good time at a state dinner,” he said. “You know normally they’re a little boring, OK. This wasn’t boring.”
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