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Queen Elizabeth, who is welcoming her 11th US President to Britain, will sit down for a quintessential British tea with Mr Trump in Windsor Castle at around 5pm today.
The sitting President will become the fourth American leader to be hosted at the Royal’s favoured estate, with the Queen having previously hosted Ronald Reagan in 1982, George W Bush in 2008 and most recently Barrack Obama in 2016.
The 92-year-old head of the Commonwealth could provide to be Britain’s most important diplomat in the country’s bid to secure a post-Brexit deal with Mr Trump’s United States.
The US President bemoaned Mrs May’s white paper which calls for the establishment of a common rulebook and free trade area between the UK and EU.
Mr Trump revealed he had told the Prime Minister how to negotiate Brexit but after refusing to adopt the American’s approach has “wrecked it”.
On the white paper, Mr Trump said: “If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal.
“If they do that, then their trade deal with the US will probably not be made.”
“We have enough difficult with the European Union,” he told the Sun.
“We are cracking down right now on the European Union because they have not treated the United States fairly on trading.
“No, if they do that I would say that would probably end a major trade relationship with the United States.”
With the American’s faith in the Prime Minister at an all-time low, the Queen can pull off last-gasp intervention in the hope of putting trade talks back on the right footing.
Mr Trump is incredibly public with his adulation for Britain’s Royals and often talks about how much of a “big fan of the Queen” his Scottish mother was.
The US President has also praised her representation of Britain, he said: “She is a tremendous woman.
“I really look forward to meeting her. I think she represents her country so well.”
Given the Queen’s experience and Mr Trump’s admiration for the Royals, the monarch is in an ideal position to smooth over the patchy relationship, according to expert Richard Fitzwilliams.
The commentator said the “strength of the monarchy is that it’s above party politics” when representing Britain and the Commonwealth, which allows the Queen to circumnavigate Mr Trump’s criticism of the white paper.
Former secretary-general of the Commonwealth Shridath Ramphal once said the most valuable asset is her ability to persuade leaders when they least expect it.
“The Queen speaks with an enormous amount of experience, there is no head of state in the world comparable,” Mr Fitzwilliams added.
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