It is not conventional for US presidents serving two terms to receive an invitation for a second state visit, as ITV News US Correspondent Dan Rivers explains

US President Donald Trump will touch down on UK soil on Tuesday for a state visit hosted by King Charles and Queen Camilla.

Trump became the first US president to be invited to a second state visit when Prime Minister Keir Starmer presented him with a handwritten letter from the King in the Oval Office in February.

After reading the invitation in silence, Trump confirmed he and the First Lady, Melania Trump, had accepted the invite, replying: “That’s a great, great honour… that’s really something.”

Trump was previously hosted by the late Queen on a state visit during his first term in office in 2019, in what Starmer described as

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