Queen Elizabeth 'Didn’t Like' Donald Trump, Friend Monty Roberts Claims in New Documentary

Queen Elizabeth epitomized discretion in her dealings with world leaders throughout her record-breaking 70-year reign. However, she may have let slip her opinion of one leader later in her life — President Donald Trump.

According to Monty Roberts, a close friend of the late Queen Elizabeth and subject of the new documentary The Cowboy and the Queen, the monarch was not fond of the former president. In the film, Roberts is shown watching a news clip of Trump and turning to his wife, Pat, to remark, "The Queen didn’t like him."

Roberts confirmed this sentiment in an interview with PEOPLE, stating, “The Queen said that.”

Trump was one of the 13 U.S. presidents the late Queen met during her historic reign. Elizabeth, who died two years ago on Sept. 8, 2022, hosted Trump in the U.K. twice during his presidency — once for aworking tripin July 2018 and again for astate visitin June 2019. The two also connected at theNATO 70th anniversary receptionat Buckingham Palace in December 2019.

The latest claim follows another made in a new biography which says the Queen found Trump “rude.”

In A Voyage Around the Queen, which is out now in the U.K. and will be released on Oct. 1 in the U.S., Craig Brown writes that Queen Elizabeth was put off by the way Trump acted towards her when they met.

"A few weeks after President Trump's visit, for instance, she confided in one lunch guest that she found him 'very rude': she particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting," Brown wrote in the book, according to an excerpt serialized in theDaily Mailon Aug. 19.

"She also believed President Trump 'must have some sort of arrangement' with his wifeMelania, or else why would she have remained married to him?" Brown wrote.

According to the book, however, Trump thought the visit went well, and he was confident that he was the monarch's favorite guest ever. "There are those that say they have never seen the Queen have a better time, a more animated time," Trump told Fox News, Brown noted.

The Cowboy and the Queen

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em> documentary, which premieres in theaters on Sept. 6, delves into the extraordinary friendship between the Californian "horse whisperer" and the Queen, who trusted him to train her horses with his revolutionary methods.

The moment that captured Roberts talking about Trump came shortly after a clip showing Russian leader Vladimir Putin amid the invasion of Ukraine. Filmmaker Andrea Nevins used the moment to allow Roberts to talk about how Putin was like other leaders who have tried to impose their will on other countries — like both Roberts and the Queen witnessed with Hitler during the Second World War.

“The Queen wanted the best for the world. She knew that violence wasn’t the answer,” Roberts tells PEOPLE, summing up the philosophy that he shared with the Queen.

Roberts first came to the monarch's attention in 1989, when she summoned him over from California to demonstrate his horse-training talents to her staff and family at Windsor Castle. “Yes," he says of crossing the Atlantic at the monarch's invitation. "You always say ‘yes’ to the Queen."

The first horse of the Queen’s that he was asked to prepare to be saddled up and trained was ready to accept a rider in under 30 minutes, he says.

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He tells PEOPLE, “You have no idea how long I have felt that it’s important that horses live with us human beings without violence. And that goes back to early teenage years. The world thought you had to break horses, and the Queen didn’t think that.”

Almost exactly two years ago, on Sept. 19, 2022, Roberts was among mourners at the funeral of the Queen. "Our relationship was as close as it could possibly be," he tells PEOPLE. "She had her husband and all of that, so it wasn’t that kind of relationship. I loved her to death, and I think she loved me too.”

The Cowboy and the Queen is in theaters on Sept. 6 and begins streaming on MasterClass on Sept. 12.

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