The visit is being planned as a separate event from those celebrating the US 250th anniversary celebrations, according to the official. <\/p>\n
Trump has often spoken fondly of the UK, British culture and the monarchy, and during his recent visit described King Charles as “my friend”.<\/p>\n
The White House official provided no further details on when the visit could take place or what it would entail.<\/p>\n
The royal invite was first reported by the Telegraph.<\/p>\n
Citing a source close to Trump, the Independent newspaper reported that the invitation could alternatively be extended to Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n
Speaking alongside the US president earlier this week, King Charles also spoke glowingly of the the “special relationship” between the US and the UK.<\/p>\n
“I have always admired the ingenuity of the American people and the principles of freedom, which your great democracy has represented since its inception,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Throughout my life, from the very first visit to the United States in 1970 – and there were 20 visits since that time – I have cherished a close tie between the British and American people,” King Charles added.<\/p>\n
The king’s mother, Queen Elizabeth, made five state visits to the US, beginning in 1957 with President Dwight D Eisenhower.<\/p>\n
During the Queen’s last visit to the US in 2007, former President George W Bush famously made a gaffe during the six-day visit, confusing dates and telling her she “helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 – in 1976”.<\/p>\n
After the Queen looked at him, Bush joked that she “gave me a look that only a mother could give a child.”<\/p>\n
In an earlier visit with President George HW Bush in 1991, Elizabeth spoke from behind a tall podium on the White House lawn, with only her purple and white hat visible from behind the microphone.<\/p>\n
“I do hope you can see me today from where you are,” she told members of Congress at a separate event later in the visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The visit is being planned as a separate event from those celebrating the US 250th anniversary celebrations, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-148031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148031","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=148031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}