While Donald Trump might not be aware of it, there is some bad blood between him and many members of the Royal Family.
The former president has been to Buckingham Palace multiple times and was fascinated by the late Queen Elizabeth II.
He reached out to British royals via interviews and official statements pleading for an invitation to Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral.
Still, King Charles III, Prince William, and other senior royals did not respond.
Many supporters of the former Republican president and the royals were confused about King Charles’s public snub of the billionaire.
A new book that sheds light on the relationship between King Charles and Trump reveals that all is not rosy between the two powerful men.
While it was always known that Trump had issues with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the truth is that he irked Prince William and Kate Middleton multiple times in the past.
These revelations have been made in the newly released excerpts of the upcoming biography The King: The Life of Charles III by Christopher Andersen.
According to the royal author, when Trump caused controversy by saying that there were “very fine people on both sides” after the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one person dead — King Charles united with his two sons, Prince Harry and Prince William, to take action against the mogul.
King Charles, Prince William, and Prince Harry “burned up the phone lines between Clarence House and Kensington Palace” to push for the cancellation of Trump’s planned visit to England.
King Charles and his children succeeded because the trip was ultimately annulled.
King Charles was perplexed and fascinated by Trump, and he used Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding to fish for answers about the trash-talking and Twitter-obsessed president who had the world living on the edge.
Andersen wrote: “Throughout 2017 and into 2018, Britons seemed nearly as fascinated with the tweet-storming Trump as their American cousins. The royal family was no exception,” Andersen writes. “At every opportunity, including Prince Harry’s wedding reception, Charles took his wealthy and influential American friends aside and gently prodded them for information.”
The book also revealed that Prince William and King Charles became enraged when Trump openly ridiculed Kate Middleton after a French magazine published her topless photos.
Trump tweeted: “Kate Middleton is great – but she shouldn’t be sunbathing in the nude – only herself to blame. Who wouldn’t take Kate’s picture and make lots of money if she does the nude sunbathing thing? Come on, Kate!”
King Charles and Prince William erupted into “torrents of profanity” upon reading the tweet, according to the book.
The author also claimed that Trump’s decision to confess that he “could have ‘nailed [Princess Diana] if I wanted to,’ but only if she passed an HIV test” will not help his case with the King of England.
These many incidents and tensions with the royals hint that Trump might not be invited to King Charles’s coronation ceremony in May of next year.
