The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States is not good news for Meghan Markle and Harry. But Prince William and Kate Middleton, too, must not have rejoiced when the results of the American election which pitted the businessman against Kamala Harris fell this Wednesday, November 6. From January 20, 2025, the billionaire will return to the White House and will meet heads of state from around the world, such as Charles III. A prospect which certainly does not enchant his heirs to the throne who, remember, had done everything not to be photographed with Donald Trump during his visit to London in 2019.
Yet attached to their duties as future sovereigns, the grandson of Elizabeth II and his wife seemed inflexible on the Trump question. Although William had escorted the leader and his wife Melania to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Westminster Abbey, no photos had been taken of Harry's brother with the couple. However, it was his uncle, Prince Andrew, who helped the Trumps lay their wreath. Same distance at the state banquet organized at Buckingham Palace in the presence of the Queen, and during which neither Kate Middleton nor her husband posed with the First Lady and her husband, which nevertheless happens systematically during a such event. To prevent this from happening, the British queen even asked that the seating plan not position Kate near the “POTUS”.
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This unforgivable tweet from Donald Trump about Kate Middleton
But why were William and Kate so reluctant to be immortalized with President Trump? Without a doubt because the prince and his wife had kept a vivid memory of the deeply misogynistic tweet dating from 2012 from the American, known for his excesses on social networks, against the Princess of Wales. The context: in the summer of 2012, while the then Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were on vacation in a luxurious castle in Lubéron, in Vaucluse, paparazzi captured the sunbathing topless of the daughter-in-law of Charles III. A few days later, the photos were on the front page of Closer. Shock within the Firm, which immediately protested at this violation of privacy and took legal action to seek compensation.
Despite the anger of the Palace, the shots naturally had time to go around the Internet and therefore be seen by Donald Trump. In the biography The King: the life of Charles IIIpublished in November 2022, journalist Christopher Andersen returned to this scandalous episode and told the story behind the scenes, citing the businessman's unfortunate tweet about Kate's stolen photos: “She only has herself to blame! Kate Middleton is great but she shouldn't sunbathe naked. Who wouldn’t take a photo of her to make a lot of money if she sunbathed like that”he insisted, provoking “torrents of profanity” from Charles and Prince William, “furious”.
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