Most married couples sleep together. The Trumps, apparently, prefer their own rooms.
According to sources, President Trump and first lady Melania will sleep in separate suites at Windsor Castle during their U.K. state visit. They will enjoy their own rooms and sheets shipped from the U.S. for the occasion.
Windsor Castle has more than 1,000 rooms, including state apartments, private chambers, chapels, and offices, making separate bedrooms easy to arrange. The Daily Mail joked, “Below-stairs wags, noting that Melania has a separate suite, joke that if she’d asked for a water bed she could effortlessly drift apart from Donald.”
Royal commentator Alastair Bruce noted that top guests at Windsor are given suites with both a double and a single bed. This setup would allow the Trumps to share a room without Trump disturbing Melania after his late-night commitments.
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The idea that the couple keeps separate spaces has been around for months. Melania spends most of her time in New York while her husband focuses on reshaping the White House in Washington.
Keeping separate sleeping areas is not unusual at Windsor. Reports suggest that Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip also had their own bedrooms, and King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla continue to live in separate residences.
Ahead of their arrival at Stansted Airport on Tuesday, Trump’s team checked his Windsor suite to make sure everything met his standards. They supplied the housekeepers with the bed linens he prefers. A courtier joked that the move was to prevent Trump’s tanning products from affecting the royal bedding.
Michael Wolff previously said Donald and Melania Trump are “separated.” In a May Daily Beast Podcast interview, he explained the couple “live separate lives.” “They clearly do not in any way inhabit a marriage as we define marriage,” Wolff said. “And I think maybe we can more specifically say they live separate lives. They are separated. The president of the United States and the first lady are separated.”
Officials at the White House strongly rejected Wolff’s claims. They called him a “lying sack of s–t” and “a fraud” and described his reports as “blatant lies and fabrications.”
Reports from The New York Times said Melania often “vanishes from view for weeks at a time,” retreating to her homes in New York or Florida. Sources at the White House claimed that she spends more time at the residence than the public realizes, but they would not give exact details.
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