King Charles and Queen Camilla are hosting a lavish state banquet at Windsor Castle tonight in honour of US President Donald Trump and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump and the guest list is nothing short of spectacular. Various figures from showbiz, politics, trade and business are included in the guest list, consisting of 160 people and are dining inside the lavish St George’s Hall.
Contrary to previous state visits by US presidents, this one appears to feature more businesspeople than celebrities. Guests include members of the Royal Family, like the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Anne and her husband, Sir Timothy Laurence. The King is seated in the middle of the table, between Mr Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while the Princess of Wales is on Mr Trump’s other side.
On the opposite side of the table is the Queen, who is between First Lady Melania Trump and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, while the Prince of Wales is on the other side of Mrs Trump.
American dignitaries include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, US special envoy Steve Witkoff, US Ambassador to the UK Warren Stephens, and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, White House deputy chiefs of staff Nicholas Luna, and Dan Scavino.
The US President’s 31-year-old daughter, Tiffany Trump, is also among the guests.
Another guest is media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who was seated on the same side of the table as the Queen and Prince William, but much further down to their left.
He was seated between Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and Mr Murdoch’s fifth wife Elena Murdoch.
Other guests from the world of golf include English golfer Charley Hull, who recently won her third Ladies’ Professional Golf Association title, and Niall Farquharson, chairman of The R&A, one of the game’s governing bodies.
Big names at the banquet from the tech world include Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple, and Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia.