This is, after all, the party which not only welcomed the monstrous Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, on his 1978 state visit to Britain. I was at Mar-a-Lago talking to Mr Trump for my forthcoming biography, Elizabeth II, just three months ago. The then-Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told me he was left on the runway waiting for Mr Trump to disembark from Air Force One. As soon he stepped off the plane, Mr Trump did something remarkable: he switched off his Twitter feed for the entire duration of the state visit. It is about celebrating 250 years of the US and all that has happened since it booted out his great, great, great, great, great grandfather George III in 1776.

Source: Daily Mail April 01, 2026 08:54 UTC