{"id":29564,"date":"2025-09-18T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29564\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:10:10","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-says-princess-catherine-so-beautiful-as-he-arrives-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29564\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump says Princess Catherine \u2018so beautiful\u2019 as he arrives in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"The President and First Lady were met by the Prince and Princess of Wales on their arrival at Windsor Castle. Photo \/ Aaron Chown \/ WPA Pool \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The President and First Lady were met by the Prince and Princess of Wales on their arrival at Windsor Castle. Photo \/ Aaron Chown \/ WPA Pool \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Trump was invited to the UK by King Charles III for his second state visit and the first of his second presidential term. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">He and the King appeared to be getting along swimmingly, being pictured laughing together at several points in the day.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The King and President Trump appeared to be enjoying their day together. Photo \/ Ian Vogler \/ WPA Pool \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The King and President Trump appeared to be enjoying their day together. Photo \/ Ian Vogler \/ WPA Pool \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">At a state banquet later, Trump said the visit was \u201cone of the highest honours of my life\u201d, according to the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">He went on to praise the Princess of Wales again in a gushing commendation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMelania and I are delighted to visit again with Prince William and to see her Her Royal Highness, Princess Catherine &#8211; so radiant and so healthy &#8211; it\u2019s so beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Trump applauded the King for his personability, joking that the 76-year-old remembered his many guests with seeming ease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI just stood in line and shook about 150 hands, and the King knew every single person and every single company\u201d, he said, despite some of them having \u201cbad names\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Trump praised the royal family emphatically in his address at the state banquet. Photo \/ Yui Mok \/ WPA Pool \/ Getty Images\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Trump praised the royal family emphatically in his address at the state banquet. Photo \/ Yui Mok \/ WPA Pool \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">The King gave a toast to the \u201cenduring bond\u201d between the UK and US, referencing Trump\u2019s British roots in his own show of good humour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn fact, not only have you set foot on British soil twice in the last two months alone, but I understand that British soil makes for rather splendid golf courses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">It seems unlikely that Trump will have any time for golf on this trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Tomorrow, he is expected to meet several other UK political and business leaders, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">As Trump broke bread with the royals, protesters took to the streets to complain about the pomp and circumstance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">Protest organiser Zoe Gardner told the BBC that the state visit was \u201cappalling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kqzEwDUUT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe want our Government to show some backbone, and have a little bit of pride and represent that huge feeling of disgust at Donald Trump\u2019s politics in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The President and First Lady were met by the Prince and Princess of Wales on their arrival at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3378,28824,28823,806,28822,3043,13500,2178,156,692,78,28825,111,139,69,2572,28821,312,17509,13672,9939,2179,28826,1613,9938,3040,9863,1491],"class_list":["post-29564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-appeared","tag-arrived","tag-arrives","tag-as","tag-beautiful","tag-call","tag-catherine","tag-donald","tag-entertainment","tag-he","tag-in","tag-kingdom","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-president","tag-princess","tag-says","tag-so","tag-state","tag-states","tag-trump","tag-twoday","tag-uk","tag-united","tag-us","tag-visit","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}