Queen Elizabeth II Biography Reveals Her Withering Assessment Of “Very Rude” Donald Trump
Donald Trump was well known for lavishing praise on Queen Elizabeth II, but it appears that the feeling was not mutual.
A new biography of the late British monarch, penned by Craig Brown, casts light on a private conversation Her Majesty had about Trump following one of the former U.S. president’s visits to the UK.
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Brown’s biography A Voyage Around the Queen, which is being serialized in The Daily Mail, revealed the Queen told an acquaintance that Trump was not her cup of tea.
“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,” the book said.
“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?”
Trump had a different recollection of their encounter. He told Fox News in 2019 that the Queen had the time of her life in his company — and that their conversation was so intense, he was unaware of others in the room.
“There are those that say they have never seen the Queen have a better time, a more animated time. We had a period we were talking solid straight, I didn’t even know who the other people at the table were, never spoke to them,” Trump said.
“The meeting with the Queen was incredible. I think I can say I really got to know her because I sat with her many times and we had automatic chemistry, you will understand that feeling. It’s a good feeling. But she’s a spectacular woman.”
After her death in 2022, Trump paid tribute to the Queen: “Melania and I will always cherish our time together with the Queen, and never forget Her Majesty’s generous friendship, great wisdom, and wonderful sense of humor. What a grand and beautiful lady she was—there was nobody like her!”
Buckingham Palace has not commented on Brown’s biography.
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