mo4ch:>Royal welcome? Trump to meet the Queen after all during his UK visit, ambassador says | Mo4ch News
US President Donald Trump will meet with Queen Elizabeth during his visit to the UK next month, says the US ambassador to London. The “very symbolic” meeting would come despite the royal family's chilly attitude toward Trump.
"Meeting Her Majesty is the most important thing, because she's the head of state, and from then on, it'll be what the president wants to do,” Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson told the British Sky News when asked about the US leader’s plans for his trip. “I mean he has to see the head of state. Putting his foot on British soil, it is job one, it's very important, very symbolic,” he added.
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Trump is due to arrive in the UK for a working visit on July 13. It will be his first trip to the country, which the US supposedly has a “special relationship” with, since his election victory in 2016. His trip has since been downgraded from a full-blown state visit, which British Prime Minister Theresa May promised him last year, to a “working …
"Meeting Her Majesty is the most important thing, because she's the head of state, and from then on, it'll be what the president wants to do,” Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson told the British Sky News when asked about the US leader’s plans for his trip. “I mean he has to see the head of state. Putting his foot on British soil, it is job one, it's very important, very symbolic,” he added.
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Trump is due to arrive in the UK for a working visit on July 13. It will be his first trip to the country, which the US supposedly has a “special relationship” with, since his election victory in 2016. His trip has since been downgraded from a full-blown state visit, which British Prime Minister Theresa May promised him last year, to a “working …