As First Lady Melania Trump steps into the spotlight on the international stage for her husband’s significant second state visit to the United Kingdom this week, she will do so without a ‘complication’.

For this time, two distinguished Trump family members will not be among the Royal family’s honored guests.

President Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, famously referred to as Javanka, were pivotal advisers during his initial White House tenure. However, they are no longer officially advising Trump and will not be accompanying him to Buckingham Palace, unlike their involvement in 2019.

Ivanka, Donald’s second child with his first wife Ivana, has distanced herself from politics, choosing instead the quieter, possibly more consistently luxurious life as a Miami socialite, wife to a highly successful entrepreneur, and mother of three.

Those familiar with Melania’s dynamics have conveyed to the Daily Mail that the first lady probably prefers this arrangement, especially as she, an avid admirer of British culture, is slated for multiple solo public engagements representing the U.S. overseas.

Brace for ‘Peak Melania’, they say.

Hair up, gloves on and unencumbered.

Following a full schedule of joint events with the president on Wednesday, Melania is set to meet the Queen independently on Thursday, and later on, she will join The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, at King’s Windsor estate.

First Lady Melania Trump (right) is about to make another prominent appearance globally, being received by King Charles and Queen Camilla for an exceptional second state visit. She is pictured with President Donald Trump (left) and Queen Elizabeth (center) during the state visit in 2019 

Melania and the president left the White House for the United Kingdom on Tuesday

‘The stepchildren are gone,’ Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of the first lady Mary Jordan told the Daily Mail.

And what a departure from Melania’s first stint as presidential partner.

According to Jordan – author of The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump – Melania, 55, felt ‘enormous animosity’ toward Ivanka, 43, and was continually ‘jockeying around’ the president’s daughter.

The first lady’s office and representatives for Ivanka and Jared Kushner did not respond to a request for comment.

But a White House spokesperson did confirm that no Trump family members, other than the first lady, will be attending state visit events this week. 

‘[Ivanka] was always kind of vying for space and Melania wanted her own space,’ biographer Jordan said. ‘Melania didn’t need a second first lady that Ivanka had kind of become.’

Indeed, Trump’s first state visit to the UK in 2019 made for an enormous clash of egos, according to Melania’s former White House chief of staff and press secretary, Stephanie Grisham.

Grisham recounts in her memoir how Ivanka and Jared lobbied to appear alongside the president and first lady at a Buckingham Palace welcome ceremony hosted by Queen Elizabeth II, even though protocol would dictate they arrive with the rest of the staff.

Melania- a known stickler for proper procedure, who studies before every foreign trip – was reportedly upset.

‘It is inappropriate, it should just be the president and I,’ Melania protested, Grisham wrote.

Ivanka Trump (left), who worked as a White House aide during her father’s administration, was accompanied by Liam Fox, the secretary of state for international trade, during the 2019 state banquet at Buckingham Palace 

Stephanie Grisham wrote that Melania’s chief-of-staff feared that the Trumps were going to ‘look like the Beverly Hillbillies’ when all the adult children wanted to attend the 2019 royal state dinner. Donald Trump Jr., Lara, Eric, Ivanka, Jared Kushner and Tiffany all attended 

‘It didn’t dawn on me at first,’ Grisham wrote, ‘but over the course of the next few days, I finally figured out what was going on: Jared and Ivanka thought they were the royal family of the United States – on the same level as William and Kate in the United Kingdom.’

The first lady and Grisham even reportedly nicknamed Ivanka ‘the princess’ over her behavior.

Eventually, the first lady’s wishes appeared to have been respected and Ivanka and Jared traveled to the Palace in the motorcade. In Melania’s eponymous 2024 memoir, she recalled her arrival.

‘The afternoon state visit at Buckingham Palace was truly unforgettable. Donald and I landed in Marine One on the perfectly manicured grounds and were greeted by Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who escorted us to the entrance where Her Majesty the Queen awaited,’ she wrote.

At the same time, Javanka were captured in an iconic photograph, peering out of a large palace window, as the Trumps’ military helicopter touched down.

This reporting has been challenged by Therese Burch, a former White House staffer who was brought in by the Trump administration as a volunteer to coordinate the 2019 state visit.

Burch told the Daily Mail in 2021 that Ivanka and Jared were not barred from any state visit events. But the first lady’s contentious relationship with her stepdaughter has been widely reported.

Their tensions date to the early days of Trump’s first term when Melania delayed her move from Manhattan to Washington, DC until the summer of 2017, allowing her then 10-year-old son Barron to finish his school year in New York City.

Jared Kushner (left) and Ivanka Trump (right) watch the president and first lady arrive from inside Buckingham Palace during the June 2019 state visit. Melania Trump’s ex-aide Stephanie Grisham wrote that ‘Javanka’ wanted to be part of the official welcoming ceremony 

President Donald Trump (right) walks into the 2019 state banquet at Buckingham Palace alongside Queen Elizabeth II (left) 

During that interim period, from January 2017 to June 2017, the Kushners took up residence in DC and Ivanka installed herself in the White House.

Ivanka even reportedly requested that the traditional ‘Office of the First Lady’ in the East Wing be re-purposed as the ‘Office of the First Family.’

The suggestion left Melania furious, an insider has told the Daily Mail. And as Trump began his second term, a source familiar with both women said that ‘Ivanka will always be a thorn in [Melania’s] side.’

While the exact details of Melania and Ivanka’s relationship are uncertain, the first lady’s affection for the Royal family are not.

In Grisham’s 2021 tell-all, I’ll Take Your Questions Now, she claimed that while Trump ‘was apparently not as big a fan of Charles,’ the first lady was taken by the future king.

Grisham recounted the first couple’s feedback to a 2019 tea.

‘After Trump returned, he complained that the conversation had been terrible. “Nothing but climate change,” he groused, rolling his eyes,’ Grisham wrote.

‘Mrs. Trump laughed and said of her husband, “Oh yes, he was very bored”. She, on the other hand, had a lovely time.’

After that meeting Melania has said that she and Charles continued to correspond by letter.

First Lady Melania Trump (left) wrote in her memoir about sitting next to then Prince Charles (right) during the 2019 state dinner at Buckingham Palace. She applauded his ‘deep-rooted commitment to environmental conservation’ 

First Lady Melania Trump (left) recalled her hat almost blowing off during an arrival ceremony for the 2019 state visit alongside Queen Elizabeth (center) and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (right)

The first lady also wrote in her memoir about meeting with Charles in New York in 2005. ‘I was seated next to Prince Charles, and it was an absolute pleasure,’ saying they discussed his ‘deep-rooted commitment to environmental conservation.’

She also recounted a carefree moment she shared with Camilla and Kate during the 2019 visit.

‘Amid the pomp of the ceremonial welcome by British guards, a sudden gust of wind ruffled my hat. I quickly grabbed at it to hold it in place and shared an unrestrained moment of laughter with the Queen and the Duchess,’ she recalled. ‘It was a lighthearted and spontaneous moment in an otherwise formal and dignified occasion.’

Perhaps, this trip will finally be the first lady’s moment to shine – without obstruction.