While he was the Prince of Wales, the monarch wrote an estimated 2400 letters a year to people across all walks of life - many of them hand-written. To famous correspondences such as Henry James and Edith Wharton, JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis, and Catherine the Great and Voltaire, we can now add the rather surprising duo of King Charles and Melania Trump. The former first lady of the United States revealed in her new memoir she and her husband have an ongoing correspondence with the monarch, writing: “Our friendship with the royal family continues and we exchange letters with King Charles to this day.
” One can only imagine the content of those letters between the King and the former fashion model, although perhaps thoughts on green issues are exchanged between pleasantries. Mrs Trump first met the then-Prince of Wales in New York in 2005, and it was “an absolute pleasure to reconnect with him” in 2019, she comments in her book, when she was seated next to him at a Buckingham Palace banquet during the Trumps’ state visit to the UK. Mrs Trump adds: “We engaged in an interesting conversation about his deep-rooted commitment to environmental conservatism.
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