Well, color us surprised. There’s a new report that says former president Donald Trump has been invited to the U.S. service for Queen Elizabeth. This comes after he was snubbed from getting an invitation to the queen’s funeral in London on Monday. Here’s what you need to know.
Donald Trump Snubbed – Not Invited To Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral
An invitation to the event describes it as “a Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.” Trump and other living ex-presidents, including Barrack Obama, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and their spouses, were sent out this week. The service will take place at Washington’s National Cathedral on Wednesday.
President Biden, meanwhile, is headed to London for the queen’s funeral. The White House said earlier this week that the royal invitation to the funeral, which takes place on Monday at Westminster Abbey, was for the Bidens only.
The Queen’s Funeral Scheduled For Monday
According to reports, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is likely to attract one of the largest UK television audiences of recent decades. The funeral service for Diana, Princess of Wales on 6 September 1997, was watched by an average of 32.1 million people, including 11.7 million on ITV and 19.3 million on BBC One.
It’s been said that no royal event since then has come close to matching such huge ratings. The wedding of then Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011 attracted an average audience of 4.0 million on ITV and 13.6 million on BBC One. For example, the BBC said the state funeral in January 1965 of former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill was watched by 20 million people on its own network and five million on ITV, but this was based on the BBC’s own audience research and was not independently verified.
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