Palace: Trump to pay state visit to Britain in June

FILE – In this Wednesday, March 20, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving the White House in Washington, for a trip to visit a Army tank plant in Lima, Ohio, and a fundraising event in Canton, Ohio. Trump on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, will present his eighth Medal of Honor at the White House, to the family of Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins, who gave his life in 2007 to save fellow soldiers from an Iraqi suicide bomber. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Buckingham Palace says U.S. President Donald Trump will pay a state visit to Britain in June as a guest of Queen Elizabeth II.

The palace said Tuesday that Trump and his wife, Melania, have “accepted an invitation from Her Majesty The Queen to pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom.” The visit will take place from June 3-5.

Trump made an official trip to the U.K. last summer, though that was not a state visit, which typically features royal pomp including a banquet with the queen at Buckingham Palace.

Prime Minister Theresa May extended the invitation for a state visit more than two years ago, but the trip has been deferred amid concerns about the president’s reception and Britain’s extended crisis over Brexit.

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