Trump is making a state visit to the U.K., the homeland of his immigrant mother

ISLE OF LEWIS, Scotland — On a windswept island 40 miles off Scotland's northwest coast, a 19th century castle turned museum echoes with Gaelic ballads about homesickness and loss.

For centuries, islanders lined fishing docks below the castle, waving handkerchiefs at ships setting sail for America. Generations of locals left hardscrabble poverty on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, for opportunities abroad.

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Among them, in the early 20th century, were all 10 children of a local sub-postmaster, Malcolm MacLeod, and his wife Mary — including their youngest, Mary Anne MacLeod, born in 1912.

She became the mother of Donald Trump.

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