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Donald Trump spoke candidly about his relationship with the British Royal Family during his presidential campaign, behind-the-scenes footage has revealed.
Sat inside the private jet he used to travel between rallies, the 78-year-old president-elect opened up about his relationship with the late Queen Elizabeth, King Charles and Queen Camilla.
In a new video circulating online after his stunning US election victory over rival Kamala Harris, Trump reminisces on the time he has spent with the royals by flicking through at an old photo album.
Trump, former First Lady Melania, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka and her husband Jared, Eric and his wife Lara, and Tiffany Trump joined the Royal Family for a lavish banquet at Buckingham Palace in June 2019.
Showing off a picture of himself with the royals at the banquet, Trump recalled: ‘This was with Queen Elizabeth, she was always fantastic by the way. These images, I mean who has images like this? And these were relationships.’
Trump then turned the page to a photo of him and the then Prince of Wales, Charles, and said: ‘He’s now the King, here’s Charles with the guard.’
Donald Trump spoke candidly about his relationship with the British Royal Family during his presidential campaign. He was filmed looking through a photo album which included pictures of him with the royals
Donald Trump and the late Queen Elizabeth raise a toast at the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace in June 2019
Trump and his wife Melania are pictured alongside Charles and Camilla, the then Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall
Moving back to another picture from his 2019 state visit to England, Trump said: ‘This is Queen Elizabeth, it’s a piece of history at the highest level.’
He then flicked through to a photo of him and his wife Melania alongside Charles and Camilla.
He said: ‘Here’s Charles, so beautiful. And they’ll see the most beautiful places in the world, there are no places like this. Hopefully he’s going to be well because he’s a really good person. Camilla is fantastic. You get to know them so well.’
Trump finished by showing a famous photo of him laughing with Queen Elizabeth at a State dinner, recalling: ‘This is your favourite president with the Queen, she was unbelievable, she was great, we had a very good relationship, really good.’
The video has been taken from Tucker Carlson’s The Art of the Surge, which offers behind-the-scenes footage of Trump’s reelection campaign.
The clip was posted on X, owned by pro-Trump billionaire Elon Musk, as the president-elect continues to hunker down in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, following his remarkable political comeback.
Despite legal woes and controversies, Trump is only the second former president to win a second term after leaving the White House.
The first was Grover Cleveland, who served two four-year terms starting in 1885 and 1893.
Trump’s comments about the Royal Family come after the Mail revealed that Prince Harry’s immigration documents may finally be made public now that he will no longer be shielded by Joe BIden’s White House.
Donald Trump speaks to the late Queen Elizabeth during a D-Day event in Portsmouth in 2019
Donald Trump, Queen Elizabeth, Melania Trump, Charles and Camilla at a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace in 2019
Trump spoke candidly about his relationship with the Queen, who passed away in 2022
A Trump presidency means the Heritage Foundation is more likely to win its long-running bid for the Duke of Sussex’s records which until now has been blocked by the outgoing president’s administration.
Speaking to DailyMail.com after Trump’s historic victory, Nile Gardiner, Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, said he believes there is now a ‘strong possibility’ the think tank will be able to successfully appeal the decision.
Harry’s visa application was first called into question after he admitted in his 2023 memoir to using various drugs recreationally – something he would’ve been required to disclose in immigration documents.
The right-wing think tank claimed Harry’s admissions could have made him ineligible for entry to the US and sued the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the agency, which oversees immigration, refused to disclose a Freedom of Information request for Harry’s files.
In September a judge ruled that the files are to remain private for now – a decision Heritage is now appealing.
‘I do think there’s a strong possibility that this could happen. It’s the president’s prerogative,’ Gardiner said.
Also the new Homeland Security Secretary could order a review of Harry’s immigration application.
Queen Elizabeth greets Donald Trump during a state visit to England in June 2019
‘There are multiple things that could happen but it would be in the best interests of the American people if the Trump administration releases Prince Harry’s records for public scrutiny and Harry should be held to account’.
Last month, however, Eric Trump suggested Prince Harry’s visa would be safe because ‘no one cares’ about the Duke or his ‘unpopular’ wife Meghan.
The ex-president’s second son, 40, told the Daily Mail that his father Donald ‘loved the Queen’ and lamented how Harry had done a ‘huge detriment’ to the royal family after turning his back on the UK.
But Eric said that Harry shouldn’t have to worry about being deported if his father was re-elected, which he now has been.
‘Truthfully I don’t give a damn about Prince Harry and I don’t think this country does either,’ Eric said on October 29.
‘My father loved the Queen and I think the monarchy is an incredibly beautiful thing.’
He added: ‘The late Queen was amazing. The way she welcomed my father with open arms was, like, beyond.’
Donald’s second son said that his father was also fond of King Charles and that His Majesty had previously visited Mar-a-Lago, the Trump estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
‘We’ve known the King forever. In fact, I was just digging through a photo album not too long ago and I came across a picture of him with my father, I’m six years old in the lobby of Mar-a-Lago,’ Eric said.
He also praised William and Kate, stating that the future King had never ‘made a misstep’ while his wife ‘conducts herself so incredibly well and has been such a rock in the next generation of the family.’
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