Revealed: Queen Elizabeth was 'annoyed' at Donald Trump over 'ignorant and hurtful' comment about her sister Princess Margaret

A assertion by my chap Mail columnist Craig Brown earlier this twelvemonth that Queen Elizabeth recovered Donald Trump rude led him to importune that helium was, successful fact, ‘her favourite president’.

Now, however, I tin corroborate that our precocious monarch did so find the US president-elect disrespectful – and uncover what caused the offence.

A root progressive successful arranging Trump’s 2018 sojourn to this state with his wife, Melania, tells maine that the tycoon made a remark astir the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, who died successful 2002 aged 71.

‘Trump enactment his ft successful it by saying Margaret indispensable person been a hard sister,’ the root tells me. ‘The Queen was precise annoyed with this remark, which she viewed arsenic ignorant and hurtful. She ever defended Margaret to the hilt.’

It’s not wide wherefore Trump made the alleged remark but helium whitethorn person prepared for his sojourn by watching Netflix deed The Crown, which portrayed Margaret arsenic rebellious, volatile and resentful of her elder sister.

In the 2 bid aired earlier Trump’s visit, Margaret’s determination not to wed Peter Townsend featured heavily, with the Queen and her authorities shown opposing her tendency to wed the divorced Group Captain flying ace, which would person required the monarch’s support nether the Royal Marriages Act 1772. 

In reality, a program was made to amend the Act to let the matrimony portion removing Margaret and her children from the enactment of succession.

Craig Brown’s book, titled A Voyage Around The Queen, claims that the precocious sovereign had confided successful a impermanent that she had ‘particularly disliked’ the mode Trump looked implicit her enarthrosis arsenic if ‘in hunt of others much interesting’.

She is besides said to person mused that helium ‘must person immoderate benignant of arrangement’ with his woman aft hosting him during 1 of his 2 visits.

Trump said the comments were ‘totally false’. He told the Mail: ‘I heard I was her favourite president. I had a large narration with the Queen. She liked maine and I liked her. She was an astonishing woman.’