A reluctant host
By Karla Adam and Griff Witte
June 2 at 12:28 PM
... There will be an official greeting ceremony at Buckingham Palace, a lavish banquet with the queen’s best china, a gun salute fired from Green Park and the Tower of London ...
Some of the traditional trappings — such as staying over at Buckingham Palace, a royal welcome at the Horse Guards Parade and a gold carriage procession down the Mall — are notably absent ...
“Anytime an American president comes to town it’s exciting, not necessarily for the right reasons, but certainly people are very aware around town, not least because of the traffic jams” ...
As recently as this spring, there was an active campaign among MPs to force the government to uninvite Trump ...
“That’s the queen’s job, dealing with people whether she likes them or not ... The queen has dealt with monsters .. from Idi Amin to Robert Mugabe” ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/as-trumps-state-visit-looms-britain-seems-a-reluctant-host/2019/06/02/c0378178-83b3-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html?utm_term=.147c3e5a29cd
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