Nearly 30 years later and under very different circumstances, PresidentDonald Trump‘s daughterIvanka Trumpposed for photos on Monday outside the Taj Mahal in India, sitting on a bench not far from where Princess Diana herself satoutside the iconic mausoleum in 1992.
The photo of Ivanka, one of the president’s senior aides, was shared onher Instagramwhile she is on thetwo-day trip with her father. “The grandeur and beauty of the Taj Mahal is awe inspiring!” she wrote.
President Trump and his team will be in India through Tuesday to meet with the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and focus on trade and defense.
“I am honored to return to India with @POTUS and @FLOTUS to celebrate that the grand friendship between the world’s two largest democracies has never been stronger!” Ivanka, 38,wroteon Instagram this week.
She and Kushner, 39, together have a sweeping portfolio of issues in the Trump administration — she on workforce and family policies; he on the Middle East, criminal justice reform and the2020 re-election campaign, among other topics — and bothhave regularly faced criticismthat they are unqualified for their roles, which some call nepotistic.
That scrutiny did not abate with the India trip.
Anwar Hussein/Getty; Ivanka Trump/Instagram
Alyssa Mastromonaco, a key aide inBarack Obama‘s White House,cracked on Twitter, “why am I paying for their 2nd honeymoon omfg” — referring to a photo of Ivanka and Kushner at the Taj Mahal.
The history of Diana’s own bench photo there three decades ago is much different. It is, in miniature, a story of isolation.
Diana visited the monument alone in February 1992 because her then-husband,Prince Charles, was busy with work. In the most famous image of her there, she sat on a bench now affectionately known as “Lady Di’s Chair.” (That same bench is seen in Ivanka’s photo from this week, just behind where Ivanka is sitting.)
“It was a fascinating experience — very healing,” Diana told reporters at the time of the Taj Mahal.
She added only this: “Work it out for yourself.”
Months later, she and Charles split.
source: people.com
