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(NewsNation) — King Charles and Queen Camilla welcomed President Donald Trump and the archetypal woman to Windsor Castle connected Wednesday for a time of pomp and circumstance, arsenic the president prepares to talk business with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The day's festivities volition see a procession done the property astatine Windsor, a authorities banquet, a peculiar subject flyover and a wreath-laying ceremonial astatine the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II.
Shortly aft arriving Tuesday night, Trump spoke glowingly astir his two-day authorities sojourn to the United Kingdom, describing it arsenic a "very peculiar place." The sojourn is the 2nd of his term, a archetypal for a U.S. president.
Trump's itinerary — confined to Windsor, alternatively than London — volition support him distant from a planned wide protestation implicit his visit.
Trump, PM Keir Starmer to speech economics and assistance for Ukraine
Trump and Starmer’s Thursday gathering astatine Chequers is expected to halfway connected trade and concern betwixt the allies.
Microsoft precocious announced it would put $30 cardinal successful its U.K. operations implicit the adjacent 4 years, and Google is readying a caller multi-billion-dollar information halfway adjacent London, Reuters reported.
The leaders are besides expected to sermon ongoing support for Ukraine, including weapons provisions and what bid talks could look similar moving forward.
Trump's sojourn comes conscionable a week aft aggregate Russian drones crossed into Poland, starring to concerns astir the warfare perchance expanding into Europe.
That incidental led to NATO scrambling combatant jets to sprout them down successful response.
Trump has said Russia “could person made a mistake" with the incursion into Poland, and threatened to slap large sanctions connected Russia — but lone aft each NATO federation stops buying Russian oil.
