Queen Elizabeth II said Donald Trump was ‘very rude’: Astonishing claim revealed in new book which also reports that late monarch believed former US President must have an ‘arrangement’ with wife Melania
Queen Elizabeth found Donald Trump ‘very rude’, a sensational new biography of the late monarch claims.
The sovereign, who hosted the ex-US president twice during her reign, is said to have ‘particularly disliked’ the way he looked over her shoulder as if ‘in search of others more interesting’.
She also mused over his relationship with his wife Melania and said she believed they must have ‘some sort of arrangement’.
The astonishing claims are made by Craig Brown in his new book, A Voyage Around The Queen, which is being serialised in the Daily Mail.
He reports the conversation occurred at a lunch ‘weeks after’ one of Mr Trump’s visits.
In his final serialisation instalment today, Brown writes: ‘Over the course of her reign, Her Majesty entertained many controversial foreign leaders, including Bashar al-Assad, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Donald Trump, Emperor Hirohito and Vladimir Putin.
‘She may not have found their company convivial; upon their departure, she may even have voiced a discreet word of disapproval.
‘A few weeks after President Trump’s visit, for instance, she confided in one lunch guest that she found him “very rude”: she particularly disliked the way he couldn’t stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting.
‘She also believed President Trump “must have some sort of arrangement” with his wife Melania, or else why would she have remained married to him?
‘For his part, Donald Trump was confident he had been her favourite guest ever. “There are those that say they have never seen the Queen have a better time, a more animated time,” he later told America’s Fox News.’
Buckingham Palace has not commented on the claim as they do not, by convention, comment on books or biographies generally.
The fascinating account will no doubt come as a blow to Mr Trump, who is currently seeking re-election as President.