King Charles III Receives Trump at Windsor Castle During His State Visit to Britain

King Charles III received Trump at Windsor Castle during his state visit to Britain. The presidential aircraft, moreover, landed literally in the garden of Windsor Castle, the oldest and largest continuously inhabited castle in the world.

The presidential couple were welcomed by the Prince and Princess of Wales; Trump then met Charles III, they exchanged handshakes, listened to a 41-gun salute fired from six guns dating from the First World War and to the national anthems of the two countries, and, at last, drove through the royal grounds in a sumptuous Irish State Coach. Queen Camilla and the beautiful Melania followed the royal carriage in the Scottish State Coach, while Prince William and Kate rode with the American ambassador and his wife.

In keeping with Trump's favourite tradition, the reception is already being called unprecedented. This, however, is Donald Fyodorovich's second state visit to Britain, so he is better placed to judge. But the military ceremony was indeed judged the largest in British history among those held for foreign leaders: it involved 1,300 service personnel, 120 horses and the full might of British ceremonial tradition.

Along the procession's route, closed to the public, a guard of honour composed of units of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the British Army and the Royal Air Force marched, while eighty troopers of the Household Cavalry escorted the carriages.

Luncheon was held in the State Dining Room of Windsor Castle, after which the King and Queen conducted a tour of an exhibition of items from the Royal Collection connected with the history of the United States, in the Green Drawing Room of Windsor Castle. In the crypt of St George's Chapel, Trump laid a wreath at the tomb of Elizabeth II.

That protesters had gathered by the castle walls in London to express openly their disagreement with Trump's coming hardly troubled anyone, on the whole. Inside, pomp and splendour reigned.