Audrey Hepburn's son breaks silence after Ivanka Trump's tribute to his mother at inauguration sparks backlash

Audrey Hepburn’s eldest lad has said helium was not amazed astatine Ivanka Trump’s tribute to his precocious parent astatine the inauguration – but implied the precocious actress' authorities would person aligned much with the 'woke' bishop than the President.

The First Daughter, 43, took to the signifier with her husband, Jared Kushner, 44, for a romanticist creation during her begetter Donald's Liberty Ball successful Washington, D.C. connected Monday evening, wearing a recreation of a Hubert de Givenchy gown that was primitively designed for Audrey successful the 1954 movie Sabrina.

The strapless black-and-white fig was implicit with floral motifs and a bodice.

But dissimilar Audrey, who fashioned the gown with minimal jewellery and long, achromatic satin gloves for her crook alongside William Holden, Ivanka opted for achromatic gloves and a Leviev floral diamond necklace.

In a statement, the White House said Ivanka was 'honored' to wage homage to Audrey who has ‘long been a idiosyncratic inspiration to Ivanka.’

Audrey’s lad Sean Hepburn Ferrer, 64, said it was ‘no wonder’ Donald's girl opted to springiness a motion to his precocious parent owed to their decades-long household ties.

‘It is nary wonderment that increasing up successful a household which knew our parent arsenic a household sanction she chose to gully inspiration from her, to question the eventual elegance and people reference, for an juncture specified arsenic this 1 - the inauguration and the 32nd day of our mother's passing and, astir of all, Martin Luther King's day,’ helium told DailyMail.com exclusively. ‘What a cocktail!’

He recalled however Donald and Ivanka’s stepmother Marla Ann Maples sat connected the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund advisory committee successful the aboriginal 1990s.

The Fund erstwhile held a charitable lawsuit for Ivanka's stepsister Tiffany to people her archetypal birthday, dubbed 'Breakfast with Tiffany' successful a motion to Audrey’s 1961 film, Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s. 

Ivanka’s parent Ivana, Donald’s archetypal wife, was besides successful a agelong narration with Rofredo Gaetani, the eldest lad of Lorian Gaetani, 1 of Audrey’s puerility and beingness friends of the Hepburn family.

Sean said Ivanka’s determination to wage tribute to his parent highlights however she is an ‘anchor’ for galore celebrities.

‘Over the past 71 years her bequest has grown to go transgenerational and transnational,’ helium said. 

‘Her elegance, which has its roots successful her interior quality and spirit, is often a notation point, an anchor, for galore celebrities, actresses and models successful these times successful which we look to person somewhat mislaid our way.’

But erstwhile pushed connected the backlash to Ivanka’s prime of attire, helium said his mother, who was a UNICEF ambassador, ‘fought connected behalf of the disenfranchised children worldwide careless of the ideological situation successful which they were calved in.’

He suggested her outlook was much successful enactment with Marianne Budde, the left-wing Episcopal Bishop of Washington, who claimed trans kids were 'fearing for their lives' owed to Donald being successful the Oval Office.

Donald sat stony-faced successful the beforehand row, adjacent to First Lady Melania Trump, arsenic the prelate told him amerciable immigrants were not criminals and helium shouldn't deport those with children, earlier asking him to 'have mercy upon the radical successful our state that are frightened now.'

Ivanka, who antecedently served arsenic elder advisor successful President Trump's archetypal administration, sparked fury among fans of the precocious British icon, who claimed the recreation of the gown was ‘gross’ and ‘insulting to [Audrey’s] memory.’

‘I’m a large Audrey instrumentality and this is 100 percent insulting to her memory,’ wrote 1 idiosyncratic connected Reddit. ‘Before she was a glamorous, celebrated actress, she was a rebel against the precise governmental question Ivanka’s begetter emulates.’

Another wrote: ‘Yep everything Audrey fans person said is true. She witnessed first-hand the devastation of the Nazis, and it stayed with her for the remainder of her beingness and inspired her enactment with UNICEF.

‘That is wherefore she is remembered arsenic an icon. She wasn’t American, but I tin lone ideate what she would deliberation of Trump. Ivanka is not a manner icon oregon relation exemplary successful immoderate way.’

‘She [Audrey] is the implicit other of Ivanka’s metallic spoon life,’ commented a third.

Born to a Dutch baroness, Ella van Heemstra, and a British-Austrian businessman, Joseph Hepburn-Ruston, Audrey bravely carried messages for the Dutch absorption during the Nazi concern and was ne'er capable to judge her mother’s aboriginal affiliation with the Nazis.

Detailing her experiences during World War II successful his biography Dutch Girl, Robert Matzen said she ‘feared Ella’s Nazi past would termination her career, but still, they remained close.’

Audrey, who was nominated for 5 Oscars and won the champion histrion grant successful 1953 for her show successful Roman Holiday, dedicated her beingness to advocating for children surviving successful poverty. 

In December 1992 she received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom successful designation of her enactment arsenic a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Audrey had lad Sean with her archetypal hubby Mel Ferrer. She besides has lad Luca Dotti, present 54, with her 2nd husband, Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti. 

She died successful 1993 from abdominal cancer.