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In June 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania, paid a state visit to the UK, during which the First Couple was greeted by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace. During that visit, the Suffolk Gazette website published an article reporting that the gaffe-prone Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, had mistakenly referred to First Lady Melania Trump as Stormy, the stage name of a porn actress/stripper who has alleged she was paid $130,000 by Donald Trump for signing a nondisclosure agreement about an affair she had with him in 2006: The article prompted inquiries from Snopes.com readers about its veracity, but the information it contained was not factual. Although the slogan of the Suffolk Gazette is You Couldn't Make It Up, the website does indeed feature a good deal of made-up material, including royal spoofs holding that Queen Elizabeth sent her husband (Prince Philip) to the airport to pick up the Trumps in his Range Rover, and that the Duchess of Sussex, U.S.-born Meghan Markle, demanded her first child be named Donald after the U.S. President.
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