Minutes after landing at Windsor Castle for her second state visit to the UK, The First Lady allegedly issued the Princess of Wales an emotional confession.
Led by her husband, US President Donald Trump, Melania Trump stepped out of the Marine One helicopter they’d travelled on 17 September, to be greeted by a beaming Prince William and Kate Middleton.
According to many social media comments, onlookers have long been awaiting the first public union of the two leading ladies – especially given that they’re each often credited for their keen eyes for fashion.
And by the look of the official photographs, Kate and Melania were just as pleased to see one another, seen smiling as they reached out to shake one another’s hands.
The Wales’ subsequently escorted the Trumps from the gardens to the castle, where they were joined by King Charles III and Queen Camilla, with the group of six seen chatting among one another in a series of viral videos.
One of these clips has since been analysed by professional lip reader Nicola Hickling, who claims Melania appears to make a rather out of pocket, and somewhat sentimental admission about her time in the UK.
Opening up with Tyla on behalf of Betfair Casino, she believes Kate, 43, kicked off the conversation by telling the First Lady: “Your Macintosh is the same one I have, I wear it each time I fly.”
Replying, Melania is believed to have replied with equal enthusiasm: “I know, it’s exceptional and such a comfort. Sometimes I wear it to the house.”
It was then, Hickling claims, that the Slovenian-born mum made an emotional admission alluding to her love of the UK, and possible fear of the US.
“Sometimes when I come, I don’t want to go back,” Melania supposedly told Kate, who listened intently.
Although the lip reader doesn’t explicitly associate the two, Hickling’s comments about the First Lady come a week after one of her husband’s political allies, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated.
The right-wing activist was fatally shot at an open air debate at Utah Valley University on Wednesday (10 September) by a gunman – the suspect has since been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson – who was hiding out on the roof of one of the campus buildings.
Trump himself was targeted by armed gunman at an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania last year, sustaining a bullet wound to his air, while another attendee was killed. Weeks later, another man carrying an AK-47-style weapon was found hiding out in his Florida estate.
Then, Melania revealed how the incidents had affected her.
“I saw how they treated him, how the media was against him,” she previously told press. “I think they are afraid of his strength, and he was leading this country with peace through strength. So, as soon he announced that he was running for the presidency, everything really changed.
“And I saw it, and I said, you know, this will not be very pleasant. So I always said to him, ‘What is next?’.
“In one way, you’re not surprised, and with every event that happened, I kept thinking, ‘What’s next? What are they trying to do?’.”
Speaking to Sky News ahead of the Trumps’ state visit, Lord Kim Darroch – one of the country’s former ambassador to the States – predicted political violence could likely come up in conversation between the president and the British royals, alongside a number of equally heavy topics.
He said: “Security is tightly bound with America. So, this is a real opportunity to submit to those links to make the best of it.”
Darroch continued: “First of all, [there are] difficult discussions potentially on Ukraine, because the American proposal seems to be: if we Europeans want America to put more pressure on Putin, we need to be prepared to levy heavy tariffs on China and India over their oil purchases from Russia.
“We all want to put pressure on Putin, but that proposal is very, very tricky.”
