{"id":173199,"date":"2026-03-24T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173199\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:01:36","slug":"trump-pestered-the-late-queen-for-gossip-about-harry-and-meghan-new-book-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/173199\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pestered the late Queen for gossip about Harry and Meghan, new book claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump<\/a> besieged Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> with a barrage of questions about her family and regard for previous presidents, according to a new book. <\/p>\n

The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History, by Susan Page, details the Queen’s relationships with a steady stream of U.S. presidents, from her first encounter with President Harry Truman, when she was Princess Elizabeth in 1951, to the final state dinner of her seven-decade reign, held in 2019 in honor of Trump.<\/p>\n

During that state visit<\/a> \u2013 the first of two Trump has made to date, but the last one during the Queen’s life \u2013 he reportedly probed her majesty on her grandson Prince Harry’s relationship with his wife, Meghan, a few months after the birth of the couple’s first child. At the time, the British press was routinely reporting<\/a> that a “feud” had emerged between Prince Harry and Prince William, and their spouses.<\/p>\n

Extracts from the book, published by USA Today<\/a>, purportedly reveal Trump’s version of how his questioning of the late Queen went down.<\/p>\n

\"\u2018What\u2018What news of Meghan you majesty?\u2019 Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth II raises a glasses with US president Donald Trump during a State Banquet in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace in central London on 3 June 2019 (POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“I asked her about it constantly,” Trump said, according to the book. “I’d say, ‘Come on, tell me (what you really think).'”<\/p>\n

She replied, “No, no. It’s very nice.”<\/p>\n

Despite the Queen’s propriety, Trump was apparently unconvinced.<\/p>\n

“I really think it hurt her,” he said, in reference to the fallout reportedly occurring in the Royal family. “I just don’t think they treated her with the respect that she should have, frankly.”<\/p>\n

\"QueenQueen Elizabeth II and Donald Trump, who reportedly asked her who her favorite U.S. president was (PA Archive)<\/p>\n

During the same state visit, Trump also attempted, unsuccessfully, to draw the Queen to appraise the other 14 U.S. presidents she had met \u2013 12 of them while they were in office \u2013 and even to pick a favourite, the books reveal.<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘So could I ask you who was your favorite president?'” Trump said.<\/p>\n

She replied: “Why? They were all so good,” the book recounts.<\/p>\n

Of the encounter, Trump reportedly said: “I couldn’t get her to say a bad thing about anybody.”<\/p>\n

Despite refusing to answer the question, according to Page, Trump had a theory that the Queen’s all-time favorite president was none other than himself.<\/p>\n

“We just got along,” Trump said. His then-ambassador, Woody Johnson, agreed, the book says. “The president has a very keen sense of things like that,” the New York Jets owner added. <\/p>\n

\"DespiteDespite the recent strain on the \u2018Special Relationship,\u2019 the White House is expected to announce the king\u2019s state visit to the U.S. this week, according to a report (PA Archive)<\/p>\n

According to Page, some former presidents and first ladies were skeptical of Trump’s presumption, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s hysterical,\u201d Jill Biden said as Joe Biden shook his head, as the book describes it. \u201cOh, that fits his character, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton reportedly responded, \u201cWhy am I not surprised by that?\u201d adding: \u201cI don\u2019t think there is any evidence to believe that could possibly be true.\u201d<\/p>\n

The publication of the book comes as the “special relationship” between the UK and the US has been tested<\/a> by Trump’s frustrations with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s response to the war in Iran. <\/p>\n

Last week, a senior UK lawmaker joined the mounting calls for King Charles\u2019s visit to the US to be delayed <\/a>amid worsening relations between the two nations.<\/p>\n

King Charles has been credited with playing a vital role in easing relations between the UK and the US, with the president\u2019s second state visit<\/a> last year seen as a broad success.<\/p>\n

Despite the tensions, the White House is expected to announce the king\u2019s state visit to the U.S. this week, according to a report. <\/a><\/p>\n

The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History is published by Harper and comes out on April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-173199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}