King Charles and Queen Camilla dined alongside a veritable who’s-who of tech gurus, politicians and members of the President’s family during the US State dinner held in their honour by Donald and Melania Trump.
On Tuesday (April 28) the President and First Lady laid on a lavish state dinner for King Charles, 77, and Queen Camilla, 78, and invited a whole host of the rich and famous for the event.
Trump, 79, is the first US president in almost two decades to host a British monarch at the White House, and is returning the favour after he attended a state dinner in the UK last year.
Their visit to the US has been watched by many, hoping it will ease tensions between the US and the UK after Trump’s previous rants at Sir Keir Starmer over the Iran war and oil restrictions.
Donald Trump was pictured speaking to King Charles at the event (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The President and Melania Trump, 56, organised a four-course meal for their special guests.
According to the Washington Post, the guest list included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, as well as the current Apple CEO Tim Cook – who recently announced his departure from the tech giant.
Sports icon Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, also made the cut.
Trump is well known for being a keen golf player, so he also invited golfer Rory McIlroy.
Several famous faces from Trump’s favourite outlet, Fox News, were also invited.
This included hosts Bret Baier, Maria Bartiromo, Ainsley Earhardt, Greg Gutfeld, and Laura Ingraham, in addition to CEO Suzanne Scott.
It wasn’t all plain sailing though, as it appears that the President and First Lady served up the one thing King Charles apparently hates for dinner.
The Office of the First Lady reports that for dessert, the King and Queen and guests were served a beehive-shaped chocolate gâteau with smooth vanilla bean crémeux custard.
Former royal chef, Darren McGrady, told Fox News ahead of the dinner that King Charles is ‘not a great lover of chocolate’. Whoops.
The President and First Lady are the first to host a British monarch in more than two decades (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)
State Dinner guest list in full
Here is the reported guest list in full for the US state dinner.
- President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump
- King Charles III and Queen Camilla
- Clive Alderton, Principal Private Secretary to Their Majesties
- Justice Samuel Alito and Martha-Ann Alito
- Tobyn Andreae, Director of Communications of the Royal Household
- Marc Andreessen and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
- Bret Baier and Amy Baier
- Sen. John Barrasso
- Maria Bartiromo and Jonathan Steinberg
- Marc Benioff and Lynne Benioff
- Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, and John Freeman
- Jeff Bezos and Lauren Bezos, Amazon founder
- James Blair and Samantha Blair
- Senay Bulbul, Minister Counsellor, British Embassy Washington
- Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior, and Kathryn Burgum
- General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Varun Chandra, Prime Minister’s Chief Business, Investment and Trade Adviser
- Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Jesse Barrett
- Tim Cook, outgoing CEO of Apple
- Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
- Sen. Steve Daines
- Sophie Densham, Private Secretary to Her Majesty the Queen
- Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation, and Rachel Campos-Duffy
- Ainsley Earhardt
- David Ellison
It was a packed guest list for the State dinner for the King and Queen (Craig Hudson/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
- Pepe Fanjul and Emilia Fanjul
- Ed Forst, Administrator of the General Services Administration
- Justice Neil Gorsuch and Marie Louise Gorsuch
- Sen. Lindsey Graham
- Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative, and Marlo Greer
- Greg Gutfeld and Elena Moussa
- Beau Harrison and Hayley Harrison
- Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, and Jennifer Hegseth
- Jensen Huang and Lori Huang
- Caroline Hurndall, Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary
- Laura Ingraham
- Otis Irwin
- Rep. Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, and Kelly Johnson
- Tham Kannalikham
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Ashley Kavanaugh
- Howard Kessler and Michele Kessler
- Viktor Knavs
- Robert Kraft and Dana Kraft
- Harry Lopes
- Juan Luciano
- Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, and Allison Lutnick
- Golfer Rory McIlroy and Erica McIlroy
- Stephen Miller and Katie Miller
- Brendan Nelson
- Meg O’Neill
- John Paulson and Alina de Almeida
- Isaac Perlmutter and Laura Perlmutter
- Hervé Pierre
- Keith Poole
- Ruth Porat
- Dina Powell McCormick and Sen. Dave McCormick
- Anthony Pratt and Claudine Revere
- Adam Riddle
- Sen. Jim Risch and Vicki Risch
- Don Robert
- Chief Justice John Roberts and Jane Roberts
- John F.W. Rogers
- James Roscoe, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Washington
- Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, and Jeanette Rubio
- Christopher Ruddy
- Theo Rycroft, Deputy Private Secretary to His Majesty the King
- Dan Scavino and Erin Scavino
- Steve Schwarzman and Christine Schwarzman
- Suzanne Scott
- Brian Sikes
- Warren Stephens, American Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Harriet Stephens
- Justice Clarence Thomas and Virginia Thomas
- Lt. Col. Jonny Thompson, Senior Equerry to His Majesty the King
- Sen. John Thune and Kimberley Thune
- Eric Trump and Lara Trump
- Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
- Tiffany Trump and Michael Boulos
- Sir Christian Turner, His Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States, and Lady Claire Turner
- Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance
- C.S. Venkatakrishnan
- Jesse Watters and Emma Watters
- Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East and Lauren Olaya
