Meghan Markle promoted her lifestyle brand As Ever on Instagram during the Trump State Visit, sharing a photo of herself tending strawberry plants in her Montecito garden.The post came as senior members of the Royal Family hosted the President of the United States at Windsor Castle, including a state banquet on Wednesday evening.Wearing a £240 ($324) blue dress and a brown fedora, the Duchess of Sussex captioned the post: “Seasons shift, but the garden stays magic.”The Prince and Princess of Wales greeted the President and First Lady on arrival at Windsor before joining the carriage procession and official lunch.
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In his dinner speech at Windsor Castle’s St George’s Hall, the President praised the Prince of Wales as the King’s “remarkable son” and “really amazing,” with no mention of the Duke of Sussex.He said: “I just want to say that His Majesty has also raised a remarkable son in His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales. Really amazing. We’ve gotten to know you, and I think you’re going to have an unbelievable success in future.”Melania and I are delighted to visit again with Prince William and to see Her Royal Highness, Princess Catherine, so radiant and so healthy, so beautiful.”He also said of the King: “He has uplifted the poor, cared for rural farmers, and tended to wounded veterans like nobody else.”Earlier in the day, the President laid a wreath at Queen Elizabeth II’s tomb in St George’s Chapel with the First Lady. Around 1,500 troops took part in ceremonial events during the visit.The Duke of Sussex founded the Invictus Games in 2014 for wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans. He was in Britain last week for charity engagements before travelling to Ukraine for meetings on support for serving personnel and veterans with life-changing injuries.The President and the Sussexes have previously clashed. In 2016, Meghan, then an actor in Suits, called him “misogynistic” and “divisive” and expressed support for Hillary Clinton. In 2019, he described her as “nasty” in an interview ahead of his UK state visit, later adding: “I wasn’t referring to her as ‘she’s nasty’ – I said she was nasty about me.”And essentially, I didn’t know she was nasty about me. So, I said, but you know what, she’s doing a good job, I hope she enjoys her life,” he added.In 2020, after the couple spoke about “hate speech, misinformation, and online negativity” during the US election year, he said at a White House press conference about Meghan: “I’m not a fan of hers,” and wished Harry “a lot of luck, because he’s going to need it.”In 2024, the Heritage Foundation filed a freedom of information request seeking to establish whether the Duke had disclosed drug use on his US visa application, after he wrote about taking drugs in his memoir.Asked in February whether he would deport the Duke if he were found to have lied in immigration proceedings, the President said: “I don’t want to do that. I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.” He has also previously accused the couple of treating Queen Elizabeth II “very disrespectfully.”At Windsor on Wednesday night, the President described his second state visit to the UK as a “singular privilege,” adding: “but this is truly one of the highest honours of my life, such respect for you and such respect for your country.”He continued: “Seen from American eyes, the word special does not begin to do it justice.”We’re joined by history and faith, by love and language and by transcendent ties of culture, tradition, ancestry and destiny.”We’re like two notes in one chord or two verses of the same poem, each beautiful on its own, but really meant to be played together. The bond of kinship and identity between America and the United Kingdom is priceless and eternal.”The King said the “enduring bond between our two great nations” has long been called “special” and reflected on its evolution since the American Revolutionary War. “Today, however, we celebrate a relationship between our two countries that surely neither Washington nor King George III could possibly have imagined.”The ocean may still divide us, but in so many ways we are now the closest of kin.”
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