Prince Charles may raise climate change during Trump's visit to Britain

Some in Whitehall are urging the prince to challenge US president's pledge to abandon 2015 UN climate change deal

Donald Trump's state visit to Britain this year was never likely to fit the mould of previous trips undertaken by his predecessors, from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama. The US president's rumoured wish to play nine holes on the Queen's private golf course at Balmoral and the question of how he might explain his 2012 tweet defending the sale of topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge made sure of that.

But the tour is now looking even more likely to generate controversy as Prince Charles emerged as a possible challenger to the president's views on climate change and faith issues.