Trump slammed over ‘disrespectful’ Queen Camilla blunder | Royal | News

Donald Trump has been accused of being “disrespectful” to Queen Camilla during a state visit White House event. The Queen was shaking hands with a line up of US officials at a welcoming ceremony on the South Lawn when the US President appeared to cut in front of her.

Footage shared on social media shows Camilla pausing to allow the president to pass along the row, shaking hands while she, King Charles and First Lady Melania Trump look on. Political commentator Brian Krassenstein, who regularly criticises the US leader on X, commented: “Trump is so disrespectful. He literally cut in front of Queen Camilla while she was shaking hands.

“Every day is another embarrassment for our country.”

Mr Trump‘s handling of King Charles had already raised eyebrows after he touched the monarch’s knee during an appearance in the Oval Office and placed a hand on His Majesty’s back at their initial meeting on Monday (April 27).

It is generally deemed inappropriate to touch a member of the Royal Family unless they initiate it. Although this is not considered a strict royal rule.

Buckingham Palace says there are no “obligatory” ways to behave when meeting the King and Queen, “just courtesy”. The Palace notes many people “observe the traditional forms of greeting”.

President Trump’s apparent indiscretion at the White House on Tuesday is not the first time he has faced criticism when engaging with members of the Royal Family, which he has professed to be a great admirer of.

In 2018, he ruffled feathers when he turned his back on the late Queen Elizabeth II and then walked in front of her while inspecting the guard at Windsor Castle.

Historian Ian Beck wrote on X that he “always believed this to be a mortal insult to a monarch“.

He also breached protocol by revealing in public what the late Queen told him about Brexit.

At last night’s White House state dinner, Mr Trump made a similar misstep by telling guests King Charles agreed with his view that Iran should never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

As head of state, King Charles is above party politics and remains neutral, but Mr Trump’s comments are likely to cause some embarrassment to royal aides that his views have been made public.

Mr Trump said in his speech at the white-tie event: “We’re doing a little Middle East work right now… and we’re doing very well.

“We have militarily defeated that particular opponent, and we’re never going to let that opponent ever – Charles agrees with me even more than I do – we’re never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon. They know that, and they’ve known it right now, very powerfully.”

The president’s remarks prompted Buckingham Palace to issue a statement, in which a spokesperson said: “The King is naturally mindful of his Government’s long-standing and well-known position on the prevention of nuclear proliferation.”

A the ceremonial welcome staged for Charles and Camilla, Mr Trump praised the “special relationship” between the US and UK, telling the King “we hope it will always remain that way” and declaring “Americans have had no closer friends than the British”.

Later that day the King made a historic address to Congress on Capitol Hill – only the second British monarch to do so after his mother Queen Elizabeth II in 1991, and the first British king.

Charles told the assembled politicians, who repeatedly clapped and rose for multiple standing ovations, that the partnership between the two nations is “more important today than it has ever been”.

On Wednesday, Charles and Camilla will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that brought down New York’s Twin Towers, by laying flowers at the one of the memorial pools.