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Trump and the First Lady Participate in a Windsor Castle Arrival Ceremony, Sep. 17, 2025

September 17, 2025 · The White House · 0:32:35

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What happened

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were formally received at Windsor Castle on September 17, 2025, opening the President’s second state visit to the United Kingdom, in a ceremony carried in full on the White House channel.

The broadcast carries the ceremony without remarks: the national anthems, a carriage procession through the Windsor grounds with mounted escort, and the inspection of the guard of honor, with massed bands playing throughout. The ceremony is the traditional full-honors welcome — the form of reception the British court reserves for a state visit — staged in the castle quadrangle before the day’s program continued to the St. George’s Chapel visit and the evening state banquet.

Why it matters

The arrival ceremony is the state visit’s ceremonial opening and the visual record of an unprecedented second invitation: no previous American president had received two full state visits. On this site’s record, the ceremony page anchors the visit’s sequence — arrival and banquet on September 17, the Chequers press conference on September 18.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump and the First Lady Participate in a Windsor Castle Arrival Ceremony” (official upload, embedded above; the upload’s description places the event in Windsor, United Kingdom). The broadcast carries ceremony audio only; no remarks were delivered in this upload.