On Saturday, Donald Trump had a 40-minute conversation with Prince William at the UK ambassador’s residence following the ceremony for the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral. In an interview with the New York Post’s Diana Glebova, Trump said that the prince gave him an update about Kate Middleton and King Charles III, nearly 10 months after both royals revealed cancer diagnoses.
“I asked him about his wife and he said she’s doing well,” the president-elect said. “And I asked him about his father and his father is fighting very hard, and he loves his father and he loves his wife, so it was sad.”
Trump apparently also complimented William’s new bearded look. “He’s a good looking guy. He looked really, very handsome last night,” Trump said. “Some people look better in person? He looked great. He looked really nice, and I told him that.”
Though the climate-aware prince might not love Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra, William has never been outspoken about the politician in the way his sister-in-law Meghan Markle once was. In 2018, however, the prince and his father both reportedly turned down an invitation to attend a Windsor Castle meeting with Trump and the late Queen Elizabeth II. By 2019, Charles and Queen Camilla had a photo op with the president and his wife, Melania Trump, and in her recent memoir, Melania said that she has kept up correspondence with the monarch.