King Charles and Prince William are the Royal Family’s backbone. William will succeed his father, and his funeral plans are underway, even if Charles may live for many years. Sadly, current reports say this has strained William and Camilla.
William has helped Charles with his cancer diagnosis, like Camilla. William performed one of his father’s royal duties this week in Paris, as the Notre Dame church reopened five years after a fire.
William visited Paris briefly and met numerous world leaders, including former and future US President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, one royal analyst says King Charles will remember his son’s visit with Trump as traumatic.
Charles and William will shortly end their royal obligations for the year. The king’s cancer diagnosis and treatment were difficult. Kate Middleton said she is cancer-free, but the Palace hasn’t commented on the monarch.
During Charles and Camila’s October state visit to Australia and Samoa, Charles interrupted his cancer treatment, which is a good indication.
Queen Camilla and Prince William have filled in for Charles in 2024 when he was in treatment and needed to recuperate. William sometimes replaced his father.
He replaced his father as Crown ambassador at an 80th anniversary D-Day commemoration in Normandy in May and the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Pais days earlier. He met French and international leaders there.
Prince William meets Trump in Paris
Donald Trump, the former and future president, attended despite his strained ties with the Royal Family. Donald began wanting to be close to a Royal Family member in December 1992. One allegation said Donald wanted to leave when Princess Diana parted from Prince Charles.
People Magazine reported that Trump bombarded Diana with flowers, and she responded, “He gives me the creeps.” The Sunday Times’ Selina Scott reported that Trump aggressively pursued the Princess of Wales.
“Trump clearly saw Diana as the ultimate trophy wife,” Scott wrote in The Sunday Times. He showered Diana at Kensington Palace with hundreds-pound bouquets.
She added: “As the roses and orchids piled up at her apartment, she worried about what to do. It felt like Trump was stalking her.”
Diana and Trump met once but never dated. Trump was questioned, “You could’ve nailed her, right?” by Howard Stern after she died. Trump said, “I think I could’ve.”
Relations between Trump and the Royal Family
Trump revised his love pursuit of Diana tale over time. He told Piers Morgan in 2016 that he “respect her” but had “no interest” in dating her.
Trump’s recent comments about his amorous intentions with Diana have angered her children, Prince William and Prince Harry. King Charles supposedly didn’t like them either.
Trump’s vulgar comments about Diana after her death make it hard to conceive that Charles, William, Harry, and Kate will perceive him as anything other than crass and domineering, royal biographer Christopher Andersen told the Daily Beast.
Presidential election winner Donald Trump began his first term in 2016. His job is one of the hardest and most stressful. The US president makes state trips overseas, including to the UK to meet with the monarch.
President Trump and Queen Elizabeth II first met in 2018. Craig Brown reported alarming meeting facts, but what happened within Palace walls will likely stay there.
Queen Elizabeth called Trump “vert rude”
Brown’s biography Voyage Around The Queen, serialized in the Daily Mail, portrayed Trump as “very rude.”
“Over 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 said.
He said, “She may not have found their company convivial; upon their departure, she may even have voiced a discreet word of disapproval.” “A few weeks after President Trump’s visit, she told a lunch guest that she found him ‘very rude’ and disliked how he kept looking over her shoulder, as if looking for someone more interesting.”
Craig Brown concluded: “She also believed President Trump ‘must have some sort of arrangement’ with Melania, or else why would she have remained married to him?”
Naturally, Trump saw his queen interactions differently. The former Apprentice star called Brown a “sleaze bag” in a Daily Mail interview, calling his charges “totally false.”
“I have no idea who wrote it, but it was the opposite. We got along well with the queen. She and I liked each other. We spent hours at a state dinner. She was amazing. A scumbag may write a phony article, which is sad. I’ve always heard the contrary.”
“Generous friendship, great wisdom and awesome humor”
“I heard I was her favorite president, and you did too. Many people heard her say it.”
Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, and King Charles succeeded her. According to former Russia advisor in her White House memoir, Trump believed meeting with the Queen of England was the ultimate indicator of success.
After the queen died, Trump said that he would never forget her “generous friendship, great wisdom and wonderful sense of humour.”
If he visits the UK again in the future, Trump will meet King Charles after being sworn in as president in January. When international leaders gathered in Paris to celebrate Notre Dame’s reopening this month, they might have met.
Unfortunately, the king’s cancer treatment prevented that. In the French capital, Prince William replaced his father. William has supported Charles over the past year, replacing him at events when he’s sick.
King Charles will view Prince William and Trump’s Paris summit as a “painful reminder”
Prince William briefly met Donald Trump in Paris, but one royal analyst says Charles won’t remember it positively. Instead, royal analyst and historian Tessa Dunlop says it will be a “painful reminder” for the monarch, who has the “Royal Trump card.”
Dr. Dunlop told the Mirror: “All hail 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 pundits praised the future King for clinching the deal opposite Trump on the British diplomats’ golden upholstery.
William projected the unassailable assurance of a future monarch, in addition to his height. William received a shoulder pat and a parental comment, ‘good man, this one’, unlike Macron and Zelensky, who were treated to Trump’s blatant grandstanding and power pummels. The American’s casual platitude acknowledges that William possesses something Trump can’t match: royalty.
King Charles is “overshadowed,” expert believes.
Dunlop added: “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 presented with flair. Trump liked what he saw. The rush to get William into a helicopter for the opposite side of the Channel was understandable. Phew! Starmer’s Britain is still in contention. Overall, a good weekend.”
Dunlop regretted that King Charles may not have thought Prince William’s encounter with Trump was good.
Charles, who waited over seventy years for the big gig, must be struggling to play second fiddle to his son. William has made headlines in Commando costume firing a gun, wearing a pinny giving Christmas dinner to the needy, and accompanying his wife Catherine on the Emir of Qatar’s state visit. William and the Waleses are continuously watched.”
She concluded: “Charles’s cancer battle has not helped, but the Princess of Wales’ shock diagnosis took precedence. With William’s weekend trip to Paris, the King, once eclipsed by his exceptional mother, is now outdone by his eldest son.
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