Islamabad, April 23 -- Donald Trump has accepted Queen Elizabeth's invitation to make a state visit to Britain in June, becoming only the third US president to have been accorded the honor by the monarch, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday.

The trip is likely to be controversial given many Britons deeply dislike the man and reject his policies on issues such as immigration.

Protests involving tens of thousands of demonstrators overshadowed a visit by Trump to Britain last July and organizers said they were planning a "huge demonstration" against his state visit. The opposition Labour Party strongly criticized Prime Minister Theresa May for pressing ahead with the state visit, which May offered to Trump when she became the first foreign l...