The tiny town in Slovenia where Melania Trump grew up is basking in the glow of her impending role as America’s First Lady and hoping fervently for a visit from the former glamour model and her billionaire tycoon husband.

But while the people of Sevnica are proud that one of their own is to become the first foreign-born First Lady since Louisa Adams, the London-born wife of John Quincy Adams, who was President in the 1820s, they seem less enthused about the election of Donald Trump.

Standing next to one of the American flags that now festoon the small town on the Sava River, Srecko Ocvirk, the mayor, told journalists: “It’s a tribute just to Melania – I would not have voted for her husband.”

Nena Bedek, a friend who studied with the future Mrs Trump in Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, said: “She’s now the most important woman in the world. I’m happy for her, although less so for the victory of her husband.”