A royal reunion |
Oh don’t go giving him more ideas. President Trump is hosting King Charles III in Washington today – the first state visit by a King of England since 1939 – and now the Daily Mail is saying that the two are distant cousins. According to royal journalist Robert Hardman, Charles and Trump (through his mother Mary MacLeod) share a common ancestor in the Scottish aristocrat the 3rd Earl of Lennox (1490-1526), who furnished England with its line of Stuart kings.
On learning this the President’s thoughts turned – where else – to real estate. “Wow, that’s nice,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I’ve always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace!!! I’ll talk to the King and Queen about this in a few minutes!!! President DJT”
Cockburn understands that Hardman, who wrote for The Spectator on the Trump-Charles relationship, was due to present these findings to the President personally. The meeting was then canceled after the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Admittedly the link is tenuous. Charles and Trump are related in the same way that most people in any given country are distantly related.
Yet Cockburn felt a certain chime........