George Clooney and his wife Amal attended the King's Trust celebration at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday night with Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Idris Elba.
Rita Ora, Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood and Sir Rod Stewart were among performers marking five decades of the organisation.
The King founded the trust in 1976 when he was the Prince of Wales with the aim to end youth unemployment.
When he reached Rod Stewart down the line, the rocker offered his congratulations on the trip, and added a comment that introduced an awkward moment for the monarch.
"May I say, well done in the Americas," Stewart opined, according to a video shared on social media by the Daily Mail.
"You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place."
The King did not visibly respond to the remark, which observers interpreted as a reference to President Donald Trump, as those nearby appeared to laugh.
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Stewart and Trump were once friendly in the early 2010s when they lived near each other in Palm Beach, Florida.
Rod Stewart attacks “draft dodger” Donald Trump over “unbearable” false claims about British troops
“I may just be a humble rock star, but I’m also a Knight of the realm, and I have my opinions".
Rod Stewart has hit out at US President Donald Trump over his false claims about British troops in Afghanistan.
The rock star has urged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to force Trump to apologise for his recent remarks on British troops who served in Afghanistan.
“I may just be a humble rock star, but I’m also a Knight of the realm, and I have my opinions,” he said in the clip shared yesterday (January 23). “I was born just after the war, and I have great respect for our armed forces that fought and gave us our freedom,” he added.
“So it hurts me badly, deeply, when I read that draft dodger Trump has criticised our troops in Afghanistan for not being on the front line.” Stewart went on to highlight the scale of British deaths during the conflict, where 457 UK service personnel were killed.
“We lost over 400 of our guys,” he said. “Think of their parents. Think about it. And Trump calls them almost like cowards. It’s unbearable.”
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Rod Stewart and Donald Trump may live close to one another, but that doesn’t mean the rock star feels any sort of neighborly way about the President of the United States, Billboard reports.
In an interview with Radio Times published Tuesday (June 17) ahead of his upcoming Glastonbury performance, Stewart didn’t hold back when asked about the mogule-turned-politician, with whom he used to be friends. “I’m not a great fan of Trump,” he told the publication. “I knew him very, very well. I used to go to his house.”
“I live literally half a mile away,” continued Stewart, who has a residence in Palm Beach, Fla. “We’re both on the beach. I used to go to his Christmas parties. He’s always been a bit of a man’s man. I liked him for that. But he didn’t, as far as I’m concerned, treat women very well.”
Stewart added that he thinks becoming the leader of the country changed his former pal for the worse. “Since he became president, he became another guy,” the musician said. “Somebody I didn’t know.”
Trump and Stewart were friends for many years. Even leading up to the 2016 election — which the billionaire ended up winning, securing his first of two nonconsecutive White House terms — the Grammy winner stood by his fellow Floridian, telling Billboard when asked about the election in 2015, “I have strong political beliefs, [but] I don’t want to get into it … Donald Trump happens to be a friend of mine.”
Now, Stewart says he definitely doesn’t consider Trump a friend, citing one policy issue in particular as unforgivable. “No, I can’t anymore,” the artist said. “As long as he’s selling arms to the Israelis — and he still is. How’s that war ever gonna stop?”
