subliminal messages. i think they re there. i don t believe in melania trump coincidences. tonight will be interesting as to who she wears and the kids. tiffany trump has her own taste and style. she was just at a film festival in france. she spends a lot of time in london. donald trump junior has been sporting this sort of outdoorsy guy beard. we ll see if he has that tonight. it s interesting. these aren t events the adult children aren t people we see at the white house for a lot of events. that is the stunning piece of this. feel free to jump in. we re used to i think the most recent president, barack obama and michelle obama, just the two of them going over for a state visit. now it s president trump and his wife and the adult children, and others from the white house. and i m wondering what their roles are, the adult children to you, kate, and max.
invitation to the president and the first lady directly. i think those were the invited people. it s up to then i believe the ambassador to then flesh out the guest list a bit from the american side and likely that s when the children were added. i do feel that this is a sort of complicated, again, unprecedented, although you mentioned mexico. as you said, the interesting part of this next generation meeting to me was interesting as though the president perhaps sees his children as american royalty or this is our equivalency which is not at all how we operate in america. but perhaps everyone gets a little overwhelmed. what is it about him being anti-establishment? that s right. everyone feel this is moment deeply. perhaps he has royal fever. i don t know. kate and max, stand by and we ll come back the second we see the shot of president trump and the first lady. let me bring in one more voice. harry mount is a british author.
max foster and kate men net are in front of buckingham palace. as we stay on the pictures, max and kate, tell me more about the the choice of dress and the preparation. well, for a lot of royal fans, this is what it s about, tiaras and ball gowns and white tie. we re going to let kate take away the fashion. melania trump, her dress is not strapless, but it s sleeveless. she s wearing white. michelle obama wore a white down for her visit to the palace. it s simple. she wore white earlier today. i don t know if there s a symbolism. i think it s white tie event. the queen is wearing white. white is the theme for the evening. we do have the menu. we do have the menu. the first course will be the steamed fillet of halibut.
it is extraordinary now that you mention it. i hadn t thought about it before, but essentially there are so few people who can seemingly inspire that level of respect, that level of deference in president trump. we don t often see that, but as you said, the queen, he s always taking a very deference shl tone. he seems to have a huge amount of respect for the institution of the monarchy. perhaps he likes the idea of being a king. so and we saw today as he was carrying out his duties, attending that talking to the guards at buckingham palace, he really was behaving in a much more presidential way than what we have traditionally seen him do. one can only imagine that perhaps it s because his mother is scottish. kate, to you, you always know all things before anyone educational. do we have any idea what melania
just what you make of everyone mixing together. i think clarissa said it. he likes the idea of being a king. it would explain why he s so research shl in the palace environment, and so dismissive almost of the chaotic politics in this country right now. i think for me the most interesting part of this visit has been this push and kate will explain how this came about. i think it was pretty last minute. the adult children coming along, it s not completely unprecedented for a head of state to bring along their children to the state dinners. mexico did it in 2015. but what is interesting is this call from president trump for this next generation meeting, a formal meeting between his children and princess william and harry. they think at any time there will be no meeting of that kind here. but it does suggest he sees himself as a monarch, able to pass on his power. you explained this was a last-minute decision. yeah. well, the queen extended the