Trump welcomed by queen but his visit is not all about good manners
Amid the pageantry, the US president has waded into Brexit rows and will ask Theresa May to join his Huawei battle
03 June 2019 - 19:00
London — Britain rolled out the royal red carpet for Donald Trump on Monday, but the pomp, pageantry and banquet with Queen Elizabeth looked set to be overshadowed by the US president’s views on Brexit, the UK’s next leader and a row over China’s Huawei.
Trump and his wife, Melania, were greeted by the 93-year-old monarch at Buckingham Palace at the start of a three-day state visit which sees him feted with the full force of royal ceremony: a formal dinner with the queen, tea with heir Prince Charles, and a tour of Westminster Abbey, coronation church of English monarchs for 1,000 years...
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