The US President and First Lady were welcomed by the King, the Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Wales at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.
The scale and spectacle of the military ceremonial on show for Trump was unprecedented, with 22 half-companies of personnel lining the carriage procession route through the private Windsor estate to the castle.
Trump appeared to tell Catherine she is “so beautiful” and affectionately placed his hand on the arms of both William and Charles.
Trump’s mother was born in Scotland and emigrated to the United States in 1930. His father was born in New York City, the son of German immigrants.
After finishing university he started his property empire by borrowing money from his father.
“It really put a chip on his shoulder,” Dr Andersen said. “In the 80s and 90s, he became this playboy millionaire, and part of it seems to be a reaction against the fact that he couldn’t get into these exclusive circles. He started his own circles.”
Melania Trump, Donald Trump, King Charles and Queen Camilla during the first day of the President’s state visit in Windsor (Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)“But he’s always had this pedestal for these rich historic families, and there is no greater example than the British Royal Family: more than 1,000 years of history, 1,000 years of palaces and castles, all the trappings that only royalty provides,” he said.
Scott Lucas, professor of US politics at University College Dublin, said “status and ego” are behind Trump’s love of the Royals.
“He’s got that notoriously prickly ego in terms of others who get more attention,” he said.
‘King of the US’
The “one thing” the UK has going for it that nowhere else has is the Royal Family, Dr Andersen said.
“No American president has ever done that, and the way the UK has rolled out the red carpet – bringing him to Windsor Palace, taking the carriage ride to Windsor – there’s all these trappings that you just can’t get in the United States.”
King Charles receives Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at Windsor Castle (Photo: Ian Vogler/Daily Mirror/PA Wire)
“The UK has done a great job in using this to their advantage, and getting Trump happy and pleased with the UK and that can only help them in negotiations on things that Britain cares about, like trade deals and tariff reductions,” Dr Andersen said. “They’re doing a great job of leveraging the President in a way that he’s willing to be leveraged.”
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Americans love the Royal Family because they do not have any comparable pomp and circumstance in their own country, he added.
“Most Americans are raised on Disney movies and fairy tales and all of these things have royal families in them,” he said. “But the United States doesn’t have that, so our closest relations are with Britain.
“For a lot of Americans, the British Royal Family is the cream of the crop, the premier Royal Family in the world. Americans look to the Royal Family in a nostalgic way, to back in the day when we were part of the empire.”
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