Trump UK Visit LIVE Updates: President Donald Trump salutes as he stands beside Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla with Melania Trump on the left as Britain's Kate and Prince William listen on the far left during the national anthem at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)
Trump UK Visit LIVE Updates: US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania began their first full day of a second state visit to Britain with a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle, where they were greeted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla after being received by the Prince and Princess of Wales on arrival. The high-profile visit comes under a mammoth security operation, with protests organised by the Stop Trump Coalition both in Windsor and central London. According to The Guardian, protesters carried placards, addressing a range of issues, from climate change and abortion rights to Gaza, nuclear disarmament, the monarchy, the rise of racism. Messages mentioned from “make polluters pay” and “no to racism, no to Trump” to “stop arming Israel” and “stop Trump, stop fascism.”
What is on schedule? Trump’s second state visit to the UK will feature a grand ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle by King Charles and Queen Camilla, complete with simultaneous gun salutes in Windsor and at the Tower of London, the largest guard of honour ever assembled for a state visit with more than 1,300 British military personnel, and a carriage procession escorted by the household cavalry. The programme also includes a Beating Retreat military ceremony performed for the first time at a state visit, followed by a lavish state banquet with orchestral and military performances, before Trump travels to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s countryside residence, Chequers, on Thursday for bilateral talks.
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The Epstein case? The pomp of Trump’s visit has been clouded by scandal, with attention drawn to the dismissal of UK ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — a controversy that has cast an awkward shadow over Britain’s diplomatic standing during the high-profile state occasion.
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