Donald Trump cancelled a proposed visit to London to open America’s new embassy because he believed he had “not been shown enough love” by the British government, according to a source close to the US president. The decision put paid to a Downing Street attempt to woo Trump with an offer to meet the Queen.
Officials at No 10 were at an advanced stage of planning a visit that might have included a lunch at Buckingham Palace, according to two senior Whitehall sources. Trump is also said to have expressed interest in playing a round of golf at the Queen’s nine-hole golf course on the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire.
Inside the new American embassy
It all came to nought when the president abruptly pulled out of the visit last week,
