Donald Trump's State Visit to the Queen is nearly here

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Queen will host US President Donald Trump for a State Visit next week - with all the pomp and circumstance that goes with it.After last year's non-State visit, where Trump and First Lady Melania visited the Queen at Windsor Castle, this will be a step up.But this is not just a royal visit, it is a political one too.Daily Mirror head of politics Jason Beattie and royal editor Russell Myers join Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper to discuss what we can expect in pageantry, politics and pitfalls - and the somewhat chaotic political situation the visitors will find in the UK.They also look ahead to Prince Harry visiting the opening game of the cricket World Cup, after meeting the teams' captains ahead of the Buckingham Palace garden party.If you enjoy this episode, catch up on Jason's previous appearance on Pod Save The Queen, where we discussed the politics of royal tours. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:09.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:11.0	And we're getting a little bit political this week as Donald Trump is arrived. back to
0:15.0	put the pod save the Queen and we're getting a little bit political this week
0:17.0	I am your host Ann Gripper.
0:19.0	I'm joined on the phone by our Royal editor Russell Myers
0:22.0	who is out and about this week taking
0:24.4	advantage of half term to go and do some exploring and bits and pieces as he
0:28.5	builds up some exciting royal stories for you. Hello Russell. Hello, how you doing? And we're joined for I
0:34.7	think his second episode of Pod Save the Queen. Those of you who have been
0:37.9	listening with us for a very long time may remember Jason Beattie who is our head of politics and came on
0:45.0	I think it was about February last year it was certainly when it was cold to talk
0:49.4	about William and Kate and kind of the politics of royal visits and things so welcome back Jason.
0:55.0	It's an honor Anne.
0:57.0	And I know last week we talked about football on the on the
1:00.8	podcast and looking ahead at Prince William being at Wembley and he was
1:05.1	celebrating as Aston Villa went up the magnificent scenes on Monday and I
1:09.5	think Jason may have been celebrating similarly as his team also went up at the weekend.
1:14.0	Slightly croaky voice from cheering Charlton and on.
1:17.0	Fantastic victory over Sunderland.
1:18.0	So congratulations, Jason, a lot to celebrate.
1:21.0	And if you haven't seen those pictures of Prince William he he seemed very normal in that moment I thought like you know he was living the he was living the tension he was living the excitement I mean it's slightly confusing that he supports Aston Villa who are a team from
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