King Carlo received the American president Donald Trump at Windsor Castle with a picket of honor never so large in the modern history of the United Kingdom for a foreign leader. The British media report it, underlining the treatment and scenography reserved for the president on a state visit, with the royal guard lined up in high uniform.
The American president and First Lady Melania had arrived a few minutes earlier by helicopter in Windsor, for the official start of the unprecedented second state visit to the United Kingdom. To wait for the presidential couple in the castle park, Prince William, heir to the British throne, and his consort Kate, in charge of escorting them between wings of military departments in the building, for a short journey to the entrance, where King Carlo III and Queen Camilla awaited, resumed by a sinusitis.
Smiles and handshakes have sealed the moment of the greeting, followed by the execution of the two national hymns entrusted to one of the Royal Guard. Then there was a Parade of the Trumps aboard a real carriage, inside the park: however covered carriage, given the bad weather of a gray, rainy and suction cup day.
The British media speak of a real treatment of real honor, unprecedented in modern history, reserved for Trump from the Windsor ceremonial; Treatment orchestrated by the government of Keir Starmer, determined to use all the suggestion of the monarchical tradition, to which President Magnate shows himself sensitive, to keep the great American ally firmly.
King Carlo and President Trump then crossed Windsor’s estate with a carriage procession traveling together in the Irish State Coach. The carriage is the means of transport that Queen Elizabeth II usually used to go to the official inauguration of Parliament every year.
Produced in Ireland, it is a closed carriage with dark brown panels decorated with golden volutes, according to the Royal Collection Trust. Its most distinctive feature is the decorated golden roof.
Eighty soldiers are part of the sovereign’s escort at Windsor Castle, consisting of four divisions and two banners: the regimental flags of the Life Guards and the blues and royals of the Household Cavalry Mounded Regiment. The bodyguards wear red tunics and helmets with white feathers. The blues and royals wear blue tunics and helmets with red feathers. During the removal of the procession, the US national and British national hymns were played.
Behind the carriage of King Carlo and the President of the United States Trump, there are Queen Camilla and the First Lady Melania Trump in the Scottish State Coach, built around 1830.
Follow them in the semi-stated Landau Prince William and his wife Catherine, the American ambassador Warren Stephens and his wife Harriet.
Two Ascot Landau carriages follow with the American secretary of state Marco Rubio, the secretary of the American treasure Scott Beesent, the foreign correspondent of Trump Steve Witkoff, his head of cabinet Susie Wiles and other members of the staff of the White House.
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense described today’s welcome ceremony as “unprecedented”, with about 1,300 members of the British army and 120 horses involved. The procession route is flanked by 22 half -companies of Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British army and Royal Air Force.
In the meantime, the Royal Marines gang of his majesty Portsmouth and the central band of the Royal Air Force perform with street musicians while they march towards their position.