Donald and Melania Trump stayed overnight at Windsor Castle in a ‘spectacular room with the most spectacular views’ during their state visit to Britain.

The US President and the First Lady occupied a grand guest suite in the royal residence, which reportedly included a double bedroom and a spare single room.

The inclusion of two rooms is thought to follow a tradition where if a husband goes to bed later than his wife, he can sleep elsewhere without disturbing her.

While Buckingham Palace did not confirm the exact location of the Trumps’ accommodations, it is believed to have been one of the castle’s opulent guest suites.

Emily Maitlis told the BBC that her sources informed her: ‘They are putting Donald Trump in the most spectacular room in Windsor Castle with the most spectacular views.’

However, The Times reported a palace source suggesting that Maitlis’s claim was ‘more likely a good guess, given that all the rooms have ‘spectacular’ views’.

The Trumps are likely to stay in one of the principal rooms along the front of the castle which have views across The Long Walk and wider Berkshire landscape.

Royal expert Alastair Bruce told Sky News: ‘There are a set of suites of rooms. I don’t know which ones the King and Queen will have allocated to their principal guests.

‘But those suites of rooms tend to contain one double bedroom and a spare single room, so that if the gentleman comes to bed slightly later than his wife, he can always sleep in a separate place without disturbing her – that’s an old tradition.

‘There’s also a dressing room, bathrooms, of course, and sitting rooms. And for the President there would be undoubtedly a room set aside in order for him and his suite to maintain the executive responsibilities he has to the United States.’

Mr Bruce added that other members of Mr Trump’s team including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio would also have stayed in the castle’s principal rooms last night.

One option for the Trumps within the castle could be the Lancaster Tower, which is where former US president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy stayed in 1982.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent their first night of married life in Lancaster Tower following their wedding at St George’s Chapel in the castle in May 2018.

Queen Elizabeth II also lived in Lancaster Tower during the Second World War when she was known as Princess Elizabeth, along with her sister Princess Margaret.

They were accompanied by their governess Marion Crawford, other staff and four Grenadier Guards officers in attendance – and lived there from 1940 until 1945.

Much of what the interior of Lancaster Tower looks like is a mystery, given there are no photographs publicly available of the rooms inside. 

The Reagans stayed in Lancaster Tower when they were hosted at Windsor by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip for a UK state visit in June 1982.

A report by journalist Cathy Booth for US news agency United Press International at the time said the Reagans spent the night in Lancaster Tower, ‘overlooking 24 acres of lush English countryside’.

She wrote: ‘The Reagans were staying in a 19th century suite consisting of two bedrooms, two dressing rooms, a sitting room and two bathrooms.

‘The master bedroom is yellow and houses a valuable collection of miniatures, many depicting some of the Queen’s royal ancestors.’

James Rosebush, deputy assistant to President Reagan and Mrs Reagan’s chief of staff, was also quoted by the Washington Post at the time as describing the Lancaster Tower apartment as ‘impressive but not pretentious’.

Mr Rosebush added that it was not as ‘grand as Versailles’ but thought it was very comfortable – and a White House telephone had been installed inside.

The Post report by journalist Donnie Radcliffe claimed the main bedroom was yellow; the ladies’ dressing room was blue and white; and the sitting room was cream, brown and pink.

She wrote: ‘In the dressing room there is a collection of miniatures and in the main bedroom portraits of the Royal Family’s ancestors.’

Royal author Sally Bedell Smith also gave a history of the Reagans staying in the suite in her 2012 book ‘Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch’.

She wrote: ‘They were assigned the seven-room suite 240 in the Lancaster Tower – two bedrooms, two dressing rooms, two bathrooms, and a main sitting room with portraits of the Queen’s ancestors by Hans Holbein – all with the sweeping view of the Long Walk.

‘The Queen had arranged for a dedicated White House telephone line, as well as the installation of the first shower in Windsor Castle because her advisers were told ‘that was what he needed’.’

This morning, the Trumps are expected to have breakfast before the President leaves to meet Sir Keir Starmer at the Prime Minister’s country estate, Chequers.

But Melania will remain at the castle, where Camilla is set to give her a tour of its Royal Library and the famous Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House.

The Trumps spent their first night of the state visit at Winfield House, the US ambassador’s residence at Regent’s Park in London, after arriving at London Stansted Airport on Tuesday evening.

Donald and Melania previously stayed at the 35-room mansion during their visit in 2019, while the Bidens and Obamas have also slept overnight there.

Built in 1825, the property has the second-largest private garden in Central London and was passed to the US Government in 1946 by Barbara Hutton, socialite and heir to the Woolworths fortune.