Britain's King Charles III begins a state visit to the United States on Monday, as transatlantic tensions simmer over the Iran war, and despite a shooting two days earlier at a dinner attended by his host, President Donald Trump. The four‑day trip by Charles and Queen Camilla is intended to honor historic ties between the two countries as the United
Two and a half centuries after the American colonies declared independence from Britain under King George III, his descendant King Charles III lands in Washington Monday with trans-Atlantic ties under strain and security in the spotlight. A shooting at a Washington dinner attended by President Donald Trump on Saturday sparked a last-minute security
The challenge for King Charles III as he embarks on this week's state visit to the U.S. is, as always, to live up to his mother's example. The late Queen Elizabeth II wowed Congress in 1991 with a speech that celebrated the shared democratic traditions of Britain and the United States, quoted Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson,