U.S. President Donald Trump | Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images UK parliament to debate Donald Trump state visit petition More than 1.6 million signed petition hoping to save the Queen’s blushes.

British MPs will on February 20 debate whether Donald Trump should be granted a state visit, after a petition to stop the U.S. president from meeting the Queen was signed by more than 1.6 million people.

The petition says Trump should be allowed to enter the U.K., but "a state visit would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen."

The debate was called by the U.K. Petitions Committee. The parliament will, on the same day, discuss a second petition that calls for the state visit to go ahead. That has been signed by more than 100,000 people.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May announced while on a visit to Washington last week that the Queen had invited Trump for a state visit later this year — an invitation immediately accepted by Trump. No date has been set.

In January 2016, British MPs debated a petition calling for Trump to be barred from the U.K. for making inflammatory remarks about Muslims. That petition drew more than 570,000 signatures.