The royal will have a gun salute, a private meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, and a White House dinner on the second day of his or her state visit. The trip is partly meant to mend broken ties between the US and UK.
America got its independence from England 155 years ago
On Tuesday, King Charles III, the British monarch, was greeted with a 21-gun salute at the White House, where he took part in a ceremony called “reviewing the troops.” This is the highest diplomatic honour that the United States can give to a visiting head of state.
There is a lot of friction between the two countries right now because of things like taxes and the war in Iran. On Tuesday, the king will meet with President Trump alone in the Oval Office. Officials in Britain hope this will be a moment of unity. After that, the king will speak to a joint session of Congress. He will be only the second British ruler to do so, the first being his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1991.
Mr. Trump mostly stuck to a script when he spoke to leaders from both countries and hundreds of people were watching. He said great things about the connection between Britain and the United States. He said it started a “revolution in human freedom” that “never, ever went out, but carried forward across centuries, across oceans, and across history, until it became a fire that lit the whole world.”
The king’s speech to Congress, in which he talks about a past of “reconciliation and renewal” between the US and UK, is meant to move his government’s goals forward without getting involved in the Iran war fight between Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
On Tuesday night, the King and Queen Camilla will go to a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House. It comes after a similar dinner at Windsor Castle in September that the king threw for Mr. Trump.
The royal couple will leave Washington, D.C., on Wednesday for events in New York City. In the morning, they will visit the 9/11 memorial, and in the evening, they will attend a dinner with lots of famous people. On Thursday, the last day of their trip, they will go to Arlington National Cemetery and make a few other stops in Virginia.
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Tough security: Just a few days ago, a shooter broke through security at a gala dinner in Washington, DC, that Mr. Trump attended. For the state visit, there will be both visible and invisible layers of Secret Service protection.
Visuals only: British officials have been trying to avoid an awkward public moment where Mr. Trump could put Mr. Starmer down while the king is there. Because of this, there was only a short time for pictures before their meeting on Tuesday, and the media couldn’t ask any questions.
In return, Mr. Trump called the offer “one of the highest honours of my life” at the Windsor Castle dinner in September. He also said that Charles had “epitomised the fortitude, nobility, and spirit of the British monarchy and the British people” for decades in his toast.
British officials said that the king and queen were going on a four-day royal trip so that they could spend time in places other than Washington, D.C. The king will meet with young people in Harlem while the queen visits the New York Public Library to see an exhibit about Winnie the Pooh. The king will go to a “block party” in Virginia near the Shenandoah Mountains, and the queen will go to a farm that is all about horse racing.
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Trump is standing on a red carpet next to Melania Trump
King Charles gets out of a black car and shakes hands with Trump.
Monday, King Charles III and Queen Camilla of Britain came to the White House. President Trump and Melania Trump were there to meet them.Kenny Holston/The New York Times took the picture.
That’s why King Charles III is going on a state visit: to honour the strong ties between Britain and the United States on the 250th anniversary of American freedom. But his trip may also be an unofficial diplomacy mission, since differences over foreign policy have made ties between the US and UK the most tense they have been in decades.
A report written at the Pentagon says that President Trump is so angry that Britain hasn’t fully backed his war against Iran that his administration is thinking about whether to stop backing British authority over the Falkland Islands, which are also claimed by Argentina.
Mr. Trump is mad at Keir Starmer, the prime minister of Great Britain, because he wouldn’t let American bases be used in the first attack on Iran. The president has called Starmer “no Winston Churchill.”
In order to make the US happy, which is Britain’s main security partner, the government in London wants to organise steps to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is a key trade route in the Persian Gulf, if the cease-fire with Iran lasts. Yvette Cooper, who is Britain’s foreign minister, is going to the US with the king and is likely to meet with Marco Rubio, who is minister of State.
Tensions across the Atlantic have already pushed Britain to shelve plans to give up control of the Chagos Islands and then rent them back. The Chagos Islands are a group of remote islands in the Indian Ocean that are home to a strategically important military base for both the UK and the US.
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