Melania Trump will move into the White House this summer, a senior aide has said.

The First Lady will settle in Washington with the couple’s 10 year old son Barron and has already assumed her duties, according to her senior adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.

Ms Wolkoff told ABC News, “Ms Trump will be moving to DC and settling into the White House at the end of the school year, splitting her time between New York and DC in the meantime.”

The First Lady currently lives in New York, where she remained after her husband’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States on January 20. In November last year, Donald Trump confirmed that his wife would stay in their Trump Tower penthouse with the couple’s 10-year-old son Barron and would join him in Washington, “right after he finishes school”.

At the time, a source close to Mr Trump's transition team told the New York Post that "the campaign has been difficult for Barron" and the family hoped "to keep disruption to a minimum". Similar concerns were raised ahead of President Barack Obama's first term, over whether his wife Michelle would remain in Chicago for their daughters' education, but the family moved together.