\n The King is caught in the middle – his job here is huge\n <\/p>\n
This meeting felt worlds apart from Zelenskyy’s bruising clash with Trump at the White House.<\/p>\n
Taking place in the tranquil calm of the King’s Norfolk estate, the two men met in private. No live broadcasts, no conversations on camera, just a few simple photos released.<\/p>\n
The King and the Ukrainian president were photographed shaking hands outside and cosily smiling together beside a roaring fire. <\/p>\n
This was all in the calendar before the Trump and Zelenskyy showdown at the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
And as always, carefully choreographed by the government. <\/p>\n
The King sits above politics but finds himself at the centre of difficult and delicate international diplomacy. <\/p>\n
Just days before, Sir Keir Starmer had hand-delivered a letter from the monarch to Trump \u2013 personally inviting him for an “unprecedented” second state visit. <\/p>\n
The King’s soft power has been hard at work. For presidents, he is the man they want to meet. For British politicians, he is a quiet weapon of diplomacy. <\/p>\n
Although Charles has spoken out strongly on Ukraine, his discussions with Zelenskyy won’t have strayed beyond his briefing.<\/p>\n
This audience was a moment to show support for Ukraine, without provoking the White House. <\/p>\n
The King is caught in the middle. His job here is huge, playing a role as a unifying figure, in the face of a fractured global debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King is caught in the middle – his job here is huge This meeting felt worlds apart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-368366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-royal-families","13":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115080647668247128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368366","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=368366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}