Donald Trump and Charles III will coincide up to five times between this Monday and Thursday on what is possibly the monarch's most uncomfortable official trip The visit, overshadowed by the alleged assassination attempt, takes place just seven months after the King bid farewell to the American president at the gates of Windsor Castle, where the monarchy offered the Republican all its usual pomp and ceremony. That second invitation – an exception in itself – had been conceived to smooth relations between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the ever-unpredictable Trump. When Air Force One took off from Stansted Airport, the impression at Downing Street was that the mission entrusted to the crown had been successful.