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Donald Trump’s UK state visit set for September — when MPs are away

LONDON — Donald Trump will head to King Charles III’s Windsor Castle in September for an “unprecedented” second U.K. state visit.

The British monarch will host the U.S. president and his wife Melania, from September 17 to 19, Buckingham Palace said in a statement released Monday.

“The President of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump, accompanied by the First Lady Mrs. Melania Trump, has accepted an invitation from His Majesty The King to pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom from 17 September to 19 September 2025,” the statement read. “His Majesty The King will host The President and Mrs. Trump at Windsor Castle.”

The high-profile visit coincides with a U.K. parliamentary recess — potentially helping sidestep a diplomatic row. Britain’s MPs, who have mixed views of Trump, will be out of Westminster, with some traveling to their annual party conferences.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer handed the invitation letter from King Charles to Trump during a high-stakes visit to the White House in February. The U.K. prime minister told Trump the second state visit would be “truly historic” and “unprecedented.” Second-term presidents have tended to be invited for lunch or tea with the monarch, rather than given the full pomp of a second state visit.

But some in the governing Labour Party have called for Trump to be deprived of the chance.

Labour MP Kate Osborne wrote to House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle in April asking him to stop Trump from addressing parliament, and tabled a parliamentary motion warning it would be “inappropriate for President Trump to address Parliament,” because of his record on “misogynism, racism and xenophobia.” It has been signed by 20 lawmakers.

It draws a stark contrast to French President Emmanuel Macron who addressed British lawmakers during his own state visit to the U.K. last week.

The House of Commons speaker’s office said: “Any request made to address the houses of parliament will be considered in the usual way.”

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