{"id":145807,"date":"2025-09-18T17:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:57:09","slug":"melania-and-kate-middleton-meet-scouts-together-president-and-british-pm-starmer-announce-historic-tech-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145807\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania and Kate Middleton meet scouts together; president and British PM Starmer announce ‘historic’ tech deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Trump exit Air Force One as they arrive at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth en route to Aberdeen, Scotland, on July 28. (Jacquelyn Martin\/AP)<\/p>\n

On Thursday, President Trump will bid farewell to King Charles III and Queen Camilla at 10:30 a.m. local time before departing Windsor Castle for Chequers, the grand country manor granted to sitting prime ministers.<\/p>\n

There, the president will participate in a bilateral meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The two are expected to sign an agreement to help companies from one country build nuclear projects in the other<\/a>. They will also meet with business leaders and hold a press conference.<\/p>\n

State visits tend not to be high-stakes affairs. But the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the U.K. has been tested lately by Trump’s tariffs<\/a> and his reluctance to continue supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, experts say Starmer’s goal may be to leverage Trump’s lifelong affinity for the royal family in order to set the stage for more substantive talks.<\/p>\n

“Keir Starmer has, cleverly in a way, used the king to lure President Trump over here, to give him a very good time,” royal historian Hugo Vickers told the AP<\/a>. It’s “a wonderful opportunity, with all the goodwill that will be engaged at this point, to talk to him … and [see] if there’s any hope of sorting out Ukraine, etc. This is all a step in the right direction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Trump exit Air Force One as they arrive at Royal Air…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67226,67225,59,57,58,661,422,50,11175,33549,67227,1787,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-145807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-chief-scout","tag-frogmore-cottage","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-kate-middleton","tag-melania-trump","tag-news","tag-president-trump","tag-russian-president-vladimir-putin","tag-state-dinner","tag-state-visit","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}