The Queen has hosted tyrants before but the prince had no need to invite Trump
The latest on Donald Trump’s state visit, now reportedly reinvented as one of those new, 3G, multigenerational vacations, and featuring an all-inclusive “togethering” trip to the world’s oldest theme park, mentions presidential hopes for a meeting between his daughter, Ivanka, the former model, and William and Kate.
As nightmarish as it sounds, Ivanka’s outreach could be the Trumpian idea of diplomacy, not least because Ivanka, recently returned from Africa, now has her own adventures in white saviourship to share. Any protracted Donald-Kate encounter has looked unlikely since 2012, when he commented on illicitly taken photographs of the duchess sunbathing, topless. The royal couple, who later won £92,000 in damages, said: “The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Princess of Wales.”
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