A royal expert shared what the Queen really thought of Trump (Image: ITV)
Robert Hardman, author of King Charles III: The Inside Story has opened up on late “real” relationship with American President . Appearing on , the royal commentator was quizzed by hosts and Richard Madelely about his insight.
When asked what the Queen “really thought” of Trump, Hardman replied: “We will never really know.” However he added: “We can extrapolate from the fact that their first meeting was meant to last 20 minutes but it lasted over 40.
“They hit it off because they had two things they had two things in common, but everyone was going ‘what could they talk about?’ Well they both had Scottish mothers and they both owned quite a large chunk of Scotland. So there would have been quite a lot of Scottish chat.”
The expert continued: “That was in 2018. And just a year later, Trump came back for a state visit. And he was the last state visitor of her reign.”
The royal commentator rounded up Queen Elizabeth’s relationship with Trump, by saying: “The Trump royal rapport is a real thing.”
Susanna Reid quizzed the royal expert (Image: ITV)
It comes following previous reports that the late monarch had found the American politician to be “rude”.
This is despite Trump’s former advisor, Fiona Hill, writing in her White House memoir that he considered a “meeting with the Queen of England was the ultimate sign that he … had made it in life.”
However, according to Craig Brown’s book, A Voyage Around The Queen, she is said to have “particularly disliked” the way that Trump looked over her shoulder as if “in search of others more interesting”.
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In his book, he wrote: “Over the course of her reign, Her Majesty entertained many controversial foreign leaders, including Bashar al-Assad, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, , Emperor Hirohito and .
“She may not have found their company convivial; upon their departure, she may even have voiced a discreet word of disapproval.
“A few weeks after President Trump’s visit, for instance, she confided in one lunch guest that she found him ‘very rude’: she particularly disliked the way he couldn’t stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting.”