King Charles and Prince William are without doubt the spine upon which the current Royal Family rests. In time, William will take the throne after his father, and though it could be many, many years before Charles’ passing, his funeral plans are ongoing. Sadly, new reports suggest that this has created tension between William and Camilla.
Like Camilla, William has stepped in to support Charles amid the king’s cancer diagnosis. William has taken on many of his father’s royal duties, and one of them occurred earlier this week in Paris, when the legendary Notre Dame cathedral finally opened its doors again, five years after being devastated by a fire.
William met many world leaders during his short visit to the French capital, including the former and future President of the United States, Donald Trump. But sadly, one royal expert now claims that King Charles will look at his son’s meeting with Trump as a painful reminder.
King Charles and Prince William will soon finish their royal duties for the year. The king has undergone a very challenging time, what with his cancer diagnosis and the treatment that followed. While Kate Middleton announced that she is cancer-free, the Palace hasn’t given any news on the monarch’s status.
However, when Charles and Camila visited Australia and Samoa for their state visit in October, it was reported that Charles had paused his cancer treatment, which must be seen as a sign that things are headed in the right direction.
Throughout 2024, Queen Camilla and Prince William have stepped in to support Charles with his royal duties, filling in while he was in treatment and therefore forced to take days off to rest. William even took his father’s place in some events.
For example, he replaced his father as the representative of the Crown at an 80th anniversary D-Day commemoration in Normandy in May, and just days ago, he did the same for the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral in Pais. There, he met representatives from France and leaders from all over the world.
Prince William meeting Donald Trump in Paris
One of those in attendance was the former — and future — president, Donald Trump, who, to put it mildly, has had a troubled relationship with other Royal Family members. From what is known, Donald’s desire to be close to one particular Royal Family member began in December 1992. At that time, Princess Diana had recently separated from Prince Charles, and one claim stated that Donald wanted to make a move.
According to People Magazine, Trump began bombarding Diana with flowers, and at one point, she said, “He gives me the creeps.” British journalist Selina Scott wrote in the Sunday Times that Trump aggressively pursued the Princess of Wales.
“Trump clearly saw Diana as the ultimate trophy wife,” Scott wrote in The Sunday Times. “He bombarded Diana at Kensington Palace with massive bouquets of flowers, each worth hundreds of pounds.”
She continued: “As the roses and orchids piled up at her apartment, she became increasingly concerned about what she should do. It had begun to feel as if Trump was stalking her.”
Trump and Diana met once, but they never dated. When she tragically passed away, Trump had a strange conversation with famous radio host Howard Stern, who asked the businessman, “You could’ve nailed her, right?”. Trump replied, “I think I could’ve.”
Donald Trump’s relationship with the Royal Family
Trump has changed his story about pursuing Diana romantically over the years. In 2016, he told Piers Morgan that he did “respect her” but had “no interest” in dating her.
Trump’s recent statements about his romantic ambitions with Diana, among other things, haven’t sat well with her children, Prince William, Prince Harry. Neither were they reportedly appreciated by King Charles.
“When it comes to the younger royals, especially given his crude comments about Diana after her death, it is hard to imagine that Charles, William, Harry and Kate will view Trump as anything but crass and overbearing,” royal biographer Christopher Andersen told the Daily Beast.
In 2016, Donald Trump won the presidential elections and began his first term. He has one of the most challenging and stressful jobs in the world. Being the president of the United States entails not just sitting in the Oval Office, but also making state visits worldwide, including visiting the UK and meeting with the reigning monarch.
Donald Trump and Queen Elizabeth II met for the first time in 2018. What happened behind the Palace walls will most likely stay there, but one author, Craig Brown, revealed shocking details about the meeting.
Queen Elizabeth thought Donald Trump was “vert rude”
In his biography Voyage Around The Queen, which was serialized in the Daily Mail, Brown painted Trump in a disastrous light, claiming that the Queen found him “very rude.”
“Over the course of her reign, Her Majesty entertained many controversial foreign leaders, including Bashar al-Assad, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Donald Trump, Emperor Hirohito and Vladimir Putin,” Brown wrote.
“She may not have found their company convivial; upon their departure, she may even have voiced a discreet word of disapproval,” he continued. “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.”
Craig Brown concluded: “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?”
Unsurprisingly, Trump had quite a different view of his meetings with the queen. In an interview with the Daily Mail, the former The Apprentice star said Brown’s claims were “totally false,” branding the author as a “sleaze bag.”
“I have no idea who the writer is, but it was really just the opposite. I had a great relationship with the queen. She liked me and I liked her. We spent hours together at a state dinner. She was a fantastic woman. I think it’s a shame that a sleaze bag can write an article that’s totally false. In fact, I’ve heard always the opposite.”
“Generous friendship, great wisdom and wonderful sense of humour”
He added: “I heard I was her favorite president, and you’ve heard that too. She would say it to a lot of people.”
Queen Elizabeth II sadly died in 2022 when King Charles took the throne. In her White House memoir, Donald Trump’s former Russia advisor wrote that the president considered that “meeting with the Queen of England was the ultimate sign that he … had made it in life.”
When the queen passed away, Trump wrote a tribute to her, saying he would never forget her “generous friendship, great wisdom and wonderful sense of humour.”
Trump will be sworn in as president in January for a second time, which means he will meet King Charles if he returns to the UK for another state visit in the years to come. Had things played out differently, the two would have met this month, when world leaders gathered in Paris, France, to witness the reopening of the grand cathedral Notre Dame.
Sadly, that didn’t happen due to the king’s cancer treatment. Instead, Prince William took his father’s place in the French capital. William has been a rock for Charles during the last year, replacing his father at several events when he hasn’t felt well.
King Charles will see Prince William & Trump’s Paris meeting as a “painful reminder”
Prince William and Donald Trump met for a brief moment in Paris, but according to one royal expert, Charles won’t look back at his son’s meeting with the future President of the United States as a positive thing. Instead, royal expert and historian Tessa Dunlop claims it will be a “painful reminder” for the monarch, who holds the “Royal Trump card.”
Dr Dunlop told the Mirror: “All hail the Prince William of Wales, the only man really standing shoulder to shoulder with America’s bolshie new president-elect, Donald Trump, in a wet Paris this weekend. Royal commentators gushed over the dawn of a new special relationship, with the future King sealing the deal perched opposite Trump on the British ambassadors’ golden upholstery.”
“Height wasn’t the only in-built advantage that William enjoyed; he exuded the untouchable confidence that comes with future kingship. Unlike Macron and Zelensky, who were subjected to Trump’s ostentatious grandstanding and power pummels, William received a shoulder pat and a paternal compliment – ‘good man, this one’. The American’s casual platitude a tacit acknowledgment that William has something even Trump can’t match – the magic of royalty.”
King Charles is “overshadowed,” expert says
Dunlop continued: “These days, the Prince of Wales effortlessly blends his mother’s charisma with a careful study of the late Queen’s canny constitutional rule. Less is more, especially when the ‘less’ is delivered with a certain aplomb. Trump liked what he saw. The scramble to dispatch William into a helicopter destined for the other side of the Channel was justified. Phew! Starmer’s Britain is still in with a shout. All in all, it was a good weekend.”
However, Dunlop sadly concluded that King Charles might not have believed Prince William’s meeting with Donald Trump was a positive thing.
“It must be tough for Charles, a man who waited over seventy years for the big gig, to play second fiddle to his son. Time and again recently, William has grabbed the headlines: in Commando uniform firing a gun, wearing pinnyserving Christmas fare to the homeless, and accompanying his wife Catherine, during the Emir of Qatar’s state visit. All eyes are always on William and the Waleses.”
She concluded: “Charles’s battle with cancer has not helped, but even the monarch’s illness took second place to the Princess of Waleses’ shock diagnosis. The King, for so long overshadowed by his extraordinary mother, now finds himself outperformed by his eldest son, with William’s weekend jaunt in Paris another painful reminder of who holds royalty’s trump card.”
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