Charles III Pack your bags because, if his health permits, he will go to America next April for a state visit Trump he really wanted it. With the intellectual honesty of someone who accepted the passage of time, the British rulers were invited to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence from the British Empire. “King George III, my great-grandfather, did not regret his words when he spoke about the revolutionaries,” said the 77-year-old monarch in Windsor, in the ballroom, at a dinner held in September for President Donald Trump’s second (extraordinary) state visit to the UK. The same ancestor had to accept the curse of history, which made him marginalized because “madness” only to later find out that he suffers from bipolar disorder and judged him harshly because he had lost part of his empire, defeated by American revolutionaries seeking independence from Great Britain. After digesting the facts at that time, it turned out that this was indeed the case Elizabeth II was the last monarch to accept three state visit invitations to Americain 1957, in 1976 and in 1991. The chronicle recalls that during his 70-year administration he met with all the occupants of the White House since the Eisenhower administration, except one, Lyndon B. Johnson. He has a “special relationship” with that countrybut Trump himself underscored in the presence of his son Charles III that the term was “unfair to the relationship between the transatlantic allies”.
The President himself never fails to emphasize his pride in his Scottish origins and his sympathy for the “Scottish nanny” who raised him.
In short, what was being prepared was an exchange of favors and pomp that Charles III would have to continue to comply with, should his health allow him to travel abroad while continuing his travels. cancer treatmentdiagnosed in 2024 and from where it never healsor. This is the biggest shadow of his ambitious plans to continue carrying out all his duties as British head of state by exercising his soft power; the same thing that allows him to speak clearly in front of Trump, while serving a royal banquet in a fairytale castle. Commitment against tyrannical forces, which for Trump, in fact, is considered a friend, indiscriminate support for Ukraine and environmental defense: last September, the king had included in the menu all the themes dear to himself and his country, including themes whose tone changed from “two verses of the same poem”. However, he, with the crown on his head and the appeal he had in Donald’s imagination, was able to repay him by granting Britain a slight exception in the tariff war that the American president was waging against the rest of the world. And there are still many problems that the two allies have to face, making this invitation extended to Buckingham Palace really very necessary. Kate and William are part of the advice package.
Proof of this was Trump’s reaction, when, sitting next to the Princess of Wales, who was decorated in gold, he couldn’t help but express his appreciation for her. “very radiant and healthy”. A touch of Yankee honesty that would have made Kate’s British composure and those present pale in comparison.
But the princes of Wales they are one of the best ways for Britain to try to appease Trump who, while in Paris, at the reopening ceremony of Notre Dame after the devastating fire, has met with the heir to the throne to publicly praise him. Yes, the same sympathy was never extended to the other branch of the royal family who chose the United States to start a new life, retaining the British duchy.
Trump never liked the Sussexes and threatened to send them home Harry after the revelations contained in his biography, The Little Oneabout the use of drugs that are not allowed in America to obtain a residence visa. But then, perhaps due to pressure from a sick and kind father, the president had laid down his weapons and simply pitied the prodigal son of the royal family. “Let it go – he said – he already had enough problems with his wife. He’s terrible.”
According to American sources, the two will most likely not appear on the guest list William Kate will participate in the 4th of July celebrations.
