Donald Trump was treated to a royal reception featuring gun salutes, soldiers on horseback and a Red Arrows flypast as he met Wednesday with Britain's King Charles III for a historic second state visit, which unfolded far from marching protesters.

The pair laughed and joked as Trump inspected troops at Windsor Castle, west of London, in an elaborate spectacle featuring a carriage procession designed to play into the mercurial American leader's love of pomp and pageantry.

Some 120 horses and 1,300 members of the British military -- some in red tunics and gold plumed helmets -- feted Trump during a ceremonial guard of honour that UK officials called the largest for a state visit to Britain in living memory.

The president and First Lady Melania Trump were greeted by heir-to-the-throne Prin

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