The Cotswold town where JD Vance is set to visit on his family holiday has been ‘revealed’.
The US Vice President is set to visit Oxfordshire this August for his annual holiday alongside his wife Usha and their three children Ewan Blaine, Vivek and Mirabel.
Fashion journalist and socialite Plum Sykes told BBC Radio 4’s PM programme that the family would be staying in Charlbury.
Ms Sykes claimed to know ‘the whole story’ about Vance renting a house in the Cotswolds.
She said: ‘There has been this mass exodus from America to the Cotswolds because it’s an English fantasy of the countryside.
‘But it’s so glamorous and it’s sort of very hot because one person goes, Ellen [DeGeneres] goes.
‘The fact that JD Vance has rented this house in Charlbury I have to say I secretly know the whole story, but I can’t tell you.
‘It’s just so hot and so trendy and so fashionable… it’s an incredibly beautiful area because it’s being protected, almost like a national park that you can live in.
US Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the town of Charlbury in Oxfordshire next month
JD Vance, his wife Usha Vance, daughter Mirabel and sons Ewan (L) and Vivek pose during their tour at the Taj Mahal earlier this year
Charlbury was named as one of the best places to live in Oxfordshire earlier this year
The Cotswolds town is one of the most popular destinations in the increasingly A-List area
‘Americans cannot get over the charm but since Covid it’s been refashioned with all the pleasures of London, Paris and New York.’
Earlier this year, Charlbury was named as one of the best places to live in Oxfordshire, among the other towns of Henley and Burford.
While staying in the town, Vance could visit the Charlbury Museum, which was founded in 1949 and has a range of crafts and industries on display.
Ellen DeGeneres said she will not be in the area to greet the Vice-President and has hastily agreed a holiday to avoid him.
It was reported that Mr Vance was keen to visit Ellen’s beloved local The Bull at Charlbury, which she has visited with Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field.
Last week it was revealed she is selling one of her two Cotswolds properties for a cool £22.5million – £7.5million more than she paid for it.
She moved to the Cotswolds following her showbiz retirement and ‘to get away from Donald Trump’ after he became president.
‘We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis and I was like, ‘He got in’,’ she said. ‘And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here then’.’
JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance step off Air Force Two
Ellen DeGeneres (L) and actress Portia de Rossi left the United States after Donald Trump’s Election win
Ex-England captain Sir David Beckham and his wife, Victoria Beckham are among the high-profile figures who have arrived in the country town
The US VP joins Beyonce and Jay-Z and Taylor Swift as fans of the bucolic area’s chocolate-box villages, honeyed-stone, rolling hills and cosy pubs.
The US politician’s family breaks have already racked up disharmony during his short time serving in office.
Last week, Disneyland visitors were left outraged after Vance shut down rides so he could enjoy them with his children.
The Vice President strolled through Disneyland in Los Angeles, California, hand-in-hand with two of his children, Vivek and Mirabel, last Saturday – with a vast Secret Service security detail alongside them.
Barricades went up outside popular rides including Pirates of the Caribbean as K9 units stood guard – with an entourage of 50 bodyguards and Disney personnel said to be involved in the visit.
Mr Vance and his family are expected to arrive in Britain soon after the President’s five-day stay in Scotland.
The Stop Trump Coalition has outlined plans to greet Mr Trump with banners and flags along roads and a beachside message visible from the sky.
Further action is intended for his proposed state visit expected to take place in September.
The Vice President visited Disneyland in Anaheim, California with his family earlier this year
Disneyland visitors were left outraged after Vance shut down rides so he could enjoy them with his children
JD Vance takes his kids, and about 50 secret service on a fun day out at Disneyland
It has signalled similar opposition to Mr Vance’s British break, with a spokesman saying: ‘We are meeting Trump with protests in Aberdeen and Edinburgh this month, and then in London and Windsor in September.
‘JD Vance is every bit as unwelcome in the UK as Donald Trump.
The prospect of such a heavy security presence in the winding rural roads of The Cotswolds is likely to spark logjams in an already overly congested area of the UK.
‘We remember how Vance cut short his ski trip in Vermont because he was so enraged by the sight of a few protesters.
‘We are sure that, even in the Cotswolds, he will find the resistance waiting.’
The Vice-President strolled through Disneyland in Los Angeles, California, hand-in-hand with two of his children, Vivek and Mirabel, last Saturday – with a vast Secret Service security detail alongside them.
In a speech in February, Mr Vance highlighted an SNP government law banning protest near abortion clinics, which critics said could be used to target people praying in their own homes, as an example of an attack on freedom of speech.
Mr Vance claimed people who live within safe access zones had been sent letters by the Scottish Government warning them about praying in their homes.
The Scottish Government had insisted that Mr Vance’s claim was ‘incorrect’.
