King Charles 'viscerally despises' Donald Trump and was 'especially pained' by the US president's attacks on the Pope, ex-Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown claims
King Charles III 'viscerally despises' Donald Trump privately, royal author Tina Brown has claimed ahead of the four-day US state visit next week.
The former Vanity Fair editor said a royal adviser had also told her that the monarch was 'especially pained' by the President's attacks on Pope Leo XIV.
Charles and Camilla's trip comes amid a worsening UK-US relationship after verbal attacks by Mr Trump on the British military, its Nato allies and Sir Keir Starmer.
The King's first visit to the US as monarch is intended to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence and herald the start of celebrations across the US.
And Ms Brown wrote on her 'Fresh Hell' Substack: 'There will be no whiff next week of how "viscerally", I am told, King Charles privately despises his presidential host.'
Ahead of the trip from April 27 to 30, Ms Brown added: 'The King, a royal adviser told me, will be especially pained by Trump's attacks on Pope Leo.
'In his decades as Prince of Wales, interfaith understanding was always high on his priority list, to the point that he wanted, as monarch, to be called defender of faith, not the faith.'
Mr Trump had accused the Pope of being 'weak on crime, weak on nuclear weapons' and said he should 'stop catering to the radical Left' and 'focus on being a great Pope, not a politician', after the pontiff criticised the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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