Getty ImagesDonald Trump’s niece has been announced as part of the line-up of this year’s Hay Festival.
Mary Trump is expected to give an insight into her family, including her US President uncle.
The long-running arts and literature event in Powys will also feature Michael Sheen, Strictly Come Dancing judge Anton Du Beke and musicians Billy Ocean and Paloma Faith.
Sir Stephen Fry, Hay Festival president, said there was “space for everyone in this carnival of ideas”.
Sheen is set to host a storytelling event while Du Beke will speak about this new fiction work Monte Carlo By Moonlight.
Children’s author Jacqueline Wilson and Succession creator Jesse Armstrong also feature on the line-up, alongside leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey.
British author and playwright Hanif Kureishi, who fainted in December 2022 while on holiday in Rome and woke up without the use of his hands, arms and legs and brought out the memoir Shattered about his experience, has also been announced.
TV presenters Katie Piper and Stacey Dooley, Catastrophe actress Sharon Horgan, and The Good Place star Jameela Jamil are also on the line-up.
This year marks the 38th spring edition of the festival with more than 600 events from 22 May to 1 June.
Getty ImagesHay Festival global chief executive Julie Finch said the festival programme would tackle “shared challenges head on with purpose and hope”.
She added: “Woven throughout you’ll find our core themes for 2025 – the impacts of AI, health and wellbeing, new political orders and intergenerational exchanges – plus, as we celebrate 20 years since our first overseas event, we open more global exchange through new platforms.
“This is a festival for everyone. Join us in a world of different ideas.”
