The King raised serious concerns about Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK in the wake of the US President’s infamous bust-up with Volodymyr Zelensky, The i Paper understands.
The monarch’s private reservations over the visit left officials scrambling, fearful that a royal snub of President Trump could detonate into a full-blown diplomatic crisis.
Multiple senior Whitehall sources have told this newspaper that the King was reticent about hosting Trump at this time because of his treatment of Zelensky.
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One source said Charles was “jittery” about it, while another put it more starkly: the King “did not want to do it.”
