The late Queen Elizabeth II was so meticulously discreet that on the very rare occasions when her own opinions on people, places, and things slipped out, it was front-page stuff.
The same applies even after her passing, with global news feeds this week dominated by reports that she told a friend over lunch, after Donald Trump had visited her in either 2018 or 2019, that she found him “very rude,” and speculated witheringly that he must have “some sort of arrangement” with his wife, Melania.
The claim was made in a new biography of the late queen, serialized in the Daily Mail, written by the well-connected society journalist Craig Brown. The new account of the queen’s life, heavily reliant on anecdotes, is titled A Voyage Around the Queen.
