{"id":21499,"date":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/21499\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:37:12","slug":"king-charles-and-queen-camilla-arrive-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/21499\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles and Queen Camilla Arrive in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">King Charles III and Queen Camilla were greeted with a red-carpet ceremony on Monday afternoon as the royal couple began a four-day visit to the United States to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The royal couple walked through an honor cordon made up of U.S. military personnel before heading to the White House to kick off two days in Washington, D.C. The king, dressed in a blue suit, and queen, wearing a pink coat dress, listened as the U.S. military band played the national anthems of both Britain and the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">For King Charles, the trip is his first visit to the former colonies as Britain\u2019s monarch and comes at a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/27\/world\/europe\/king-charles-us-visit-uk-relations.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fraught time for the relationship between the governments<\/a> of the two countries. President Trump has repeatedly belittled Prime Minister Keir Starmer for refusing to join the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Their majesties began planning for their American trip months before the current conflict between Mr. Trump and Mr. Starmer. British officials and representatives of Buckingham Palace have repeatedly said the king does not get involved in day-to-day politics or foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">But privately, officials have said they are hopeful that the king\u2019s visit might soothe tensions between the president and the prime minister. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">At the White House on Monday afternoon, the royal couple will have a short visit with Mr. Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady. Following that, they will head to a garden party at the British Embassy in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">A private meeting between the president and the king will take place on Tuesday before the king delivers an address to a joint session of Congress. Mr. Trump will host a state banquet for the royal couple on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles III and Queen Camilla were greeted with a red-carpet ceremony on Monday afternoon as the royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13054,13056,13060,6238,8,13059,13057,9,13055,13058,7,1071,6237,11259,13061],"class_list":{"0":"post-21499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-camilla","9":"tag-charles-iii","10":"tag-declaration-of-independence-us","11":"tag-donald-j","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-keir","14":"tag-king-of-the-united-kingdom","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-queen-consort-of-the-united-kingdom","17":"tag-starmer","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-trump","20":"tag-united-states-international-relations","21":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","22":"tag-united-states-semiquincentennial-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116479068915446776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}