{"id":134487,"date":"2025-05-26T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134487\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:45:12","slug":"day-1-features-a-traditional-welcome-as-the-monarch-queen-camilla-arrive-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/134487\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 features a traditional welcome as the monarch, Queen Camilla arrive in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump C welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney R at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, on May 6, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met in the White House on Tuesday, disagreeing on the \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a7540170-2fb2-11f0-8bfd-adc05a8ed18c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump C welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney R at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, on May 6, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met in the White House on Tuesday, disagreeing on the &#8220;51st state&#8221; and trade issues, according to the live broadcast of CBC News. (Photo by Hu Yousong\/Xinhua via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>King Charles and Queen Camilla\u2019s royal visit to Ottawa is more than just ceremonial, according to two experts who are closely watching the couple&#8217;s trip to the nation&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Former CBC Radio managing editor Jeffrey Dvorkin \u2014 an expert on public interest in the royal family in Canada \u2014 and constitutional expert Errol Mendes, believe the trip sends a message to Washington and serves as a reminder to Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is as much about sending a message to the Trump White House as it is to announce that a new prime minister is in charge,\u201d Dvorkin told Yahoo News Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a sign that Canada is starting to limit its connections to the United States,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes, an expert on Canada\u2019s relationship with the Crown as a constitutional monarchy, agrees the visit signals a deliberate pivot by Prime Minister Mark Carney at a time when tensions run high with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes views the royal presence in Ottawa as a \u201csignal to Trump that Canada could never be for sale,\u201d and a push by Carney to reinforce Canada\u2019s identity as a sovereign state which will seek alliances far beyond its southern neighbour, should it come to that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tradition meets political symbolism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a tradition for the monarch to remain politically neutral in his throne speech, despite the above motive behind inviting the King and Queen to Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>However, as Mendes told Yahoo News Canada, \u201cthe King may surprise us by stating in a couched manner that Canada\u2019s legal and soft power moral standing makes it impossible to be owned by any other nation as his mother and father did in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A civics lesson, too<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Dvorkin, the royal visit will also act as a reminder of Canada\u2019s democratic institutions to Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany Canadians, especially young Canadians, don\u2019t really know much about how government works,\u201d he said, highlighting a civic gap the monarchy&#8217;s visit might help spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump C welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney R at the White House in Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[943,1760,32994,59087,2607,5105,7710,519,448,59088,58957],"class_list":{"0":"post-134487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-king-charles","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-airport","12":"tag-queen-camilla","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-victoria-jones","18":"tag-visit-to-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114576800163917419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}