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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Trump visits, Change UK crumbles and a row over Tiananmen Square

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

8 June 2019

9:00 AM

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President Donald Trump of the United States made a state visit to the United Kingdom, avoiding protesters by arriving at Buckingham Palace by helicopter. He brought quite a few of his family, visited Westminster Abbey and was given halibut and lamb at a state banquet. Proposing a toast, the Queen said: ‘After the shared sacrifices of the second world war, Britain and the United States worked with other allies to build an assembly of international institutions to ensure that the horrors of conflict would never be repeated.’

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