President Trump inspects a Guard of Honour, formed of the Coldstream Guards, at Windsor Castle in England on July 13, 2018. Windsor Castle staff are setting the 164-feet-long mahogany table. So Prime Minister Keir Starmer hurried to Washington in February, just five weeks after Trump began his second term, and handed him the king’s invitation for a state visit. “It’s a great, great honor, and that says at Windsor,” Trump said as he praised the king. “Keir Starmer has, cleverly in a way, used the king to lure President Trump over here, to give him a very good time,” he said.

Source: The Times September 15, 2025 14:26 UTC