Reports suggest that President Donald Trump attempted to get Queen Camilla to spill the tea on Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, during his state visit to the U.K. last month via The Independent.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla hosted Trump and First Lady Melania at Windsor Castle in September, making him the first U.S. president to be invited for a second state visit to the U.K.
At one point during the trip, Trump apparently turned to Queen Camilla and asked: “So what’s the gossip on Meghan then? What’s going on there?” a source told The Royalist Substack newsletter.
Camilla managed to gracefully avoid stirring the pot, reportedly crossing her wrists as if to suggest that she was handcuffed and couldn’t say anything on the matter. The hand gesture is one that the king is also known to deploy when he is unable to speak on a subject, according to the report.
During Trump’s visit, Meghan and her husband, the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, were thousands of miles away at their home in California, as they are no longer working royals.
While Trump has long been intrigued by the British monarchy, his fixation on Meghan is well known.
In 2016 when Trump was a presidential candidate, the then-actress Meghan Markle called Trump “misogynistic” and “divisive” during an appearance on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. The Suits actress’s comments resurfaced when she became engaged to Prince Harry. Trump was reminded of the remarks ahead of his first U.K. state visit in 2019.
“I didn’t know she was nasty,” he told reporters at the time. Trump later claimed those remarks were “made up by the fake news media,” but The Sun shared a recording and transcript of the interview proving otherwise.
Following the visit, Trump praised the royals during an interview with Piers Morgan, saying he thought Meghan was “very nice.” He also called Prince Harry a “terrific guy.”
Trump also took issue with Meghan and Harry after the couple relocated from Canada to Los Angeles in 2020. At the time, Trump wrote on social media that the U.S. would not pay for their security protection, and that “they must pay!”
