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BumRushDaShow

(171,164 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 04:50 AM Yesterday

King Charles's US visit to go ahead as planned: Buckingham Palace

Source: The Hill

04/26/26 5:08 PM ET


King Charles III’s upcoming trip to the U.S. is going ahead as planned after Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner, according to Buckingham Palace.

“Following discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day, and acting on advice of Government, we can confirm the State Visit by Their Majesties will proceed as planned,” a spokesperson for the palace said Sunday.

“The King and Queen are most grateful to all those who have worked at pace to ensure this remains the case and are looking forward to the Visit getting underway tomorrow,” the spokesperson said.

The British monarchy released the official itinerary for Charles and Queen Camilla’s upcoming trip to the U.S. earlier this month. The couple is set to go stateside for six days, starting Monday in Washington, D.C., and later traveling to New York City and Virginia. A British government source told The Hill that the royal family’s appearances in the U.S. are under review by security services, but their plans were not being changed at the moment.

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5850183-king-charles-queen-camila-us-visit/

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Cha

(319,920 posts)
4. I wonder if King Charles is ready
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 06:43 AM
Yesterday

for his country to be insulted, and maybe himself, too?

Good Luck King Charles.

BumRushDaShow

(171,164 posts)
6. Makes me think of that famous "Hamilton" song about his ancestor
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 07:28 AM
23 hrs ago

and how 45 is just like that one!



Bayard

(30,028 posts)
8. Maybe Charles just wants to thumb his nose at The Lump in person
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 12:01 PM
19 hrs ago

He should wear all his medals.

AllyCat

(18,940 posts)
3. Because there was never any threat to anyone?
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 06:42 AM
Yesterday

Why even come here? Pedo will probably arrest him and throw him in the tower.

Why risk it?

Javaman

(65,931 posts)
5. chucky is looking out for his pedo brother...
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 07:16 AM
23 hrs ago
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-stonewalls-british-probe-into-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_conversation

Trump Stonewalls British Probe Into Epstein Scandal

he Trump administration is scrambling to block British investigators’ timely and full access to the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files, which could thwart potential prosecutions in the U.K, including against former Prince Andrew.

Britain’s Metropolitan Police have sent a formal request to the Department of Justice, after the DOJ insisted it do so to obtain the original, unredacted documents. The formal request was made after earlier U.K. attempts to obtain the documents were ignored, The Guardian reported.

Any resolution of the formal request process could take a long time, and it’s not immediately clear what other conditions Trump officials may set before taking any action.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment.

U.K. police are turning up the heat on both Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal titles in the wake of the Epstein scandal, and on the former British ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson

more at link...

purr-rat beauty

(1,335 posts)
7. Coming to throw some cover for Andrew....prob let trumpy know he has the files too
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 07:56 AM
23 hrs ago

He'll ask for some help with Andrew while letting trump know he knows what trump did to those little girls.

BidenRocks

(3,424 posts)
9. (King) Charles wants his Neville Chamberlain moment!
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 01:50 PM
17 hrs ago

Abdicate now before embarrassing the UK.

Chump will fuck you on the Falklands and start another costly war!

It's what he does!

Prairie Gates

(8,351 posts)
11. Truly an "On-the-Podium-with-Hitler" moment from Charles
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 02:27 PM
16 hrs ago

Embarrassing. Trump just attacked his own son! This approaches Ted Cruz "your wife is ugly" levels of self-degradation.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,630 posts)
12. King Charles Arrives in Trump's Washington, and a Congress Less Civil Than His Mother Faced
Mon Apr 27, 2026, 03:06 PM
16 hrs ago

During her 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth met almost every U.S. President from Dwight Eisenhower to Joe Biden. But it was in 1991, when she met with President George H.W. Bush, that she became the first British Monarch to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

The visit couldn’t have been better timed. President George H.W. Bush was riding sky-high popularity—76% approval in Gallup’s polling that same month!—after having painstakingly assembled an international coalition to win a clean war in the Middle East. Bush and Prime Minister John Major were thick as thieves. The United States was negotiating the final stages of tariff-reducing NAFTA and framing up what would become the World Trade Organization. Bush was in constant contact with Mikhail Gorbachev to stage-manage the structured collapse of the Soviet empire. The global economy was coming out of an economic recession and Washington was heading into its longest economic expansion in U.S. history.

When King Charles III on Tuesday follows in his late mother’s footsteps as the second British Monarch to address Congress, he will be doing so in a Washington unrecognizable from the Queen’s triumphant visit 35 years earlier. Donald Trump is facing the worst approval numbers of his second term—a meager 36% in Gallup’s latest surveys—as he leads an unpopular Iran War and aggravates allies around the world. Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer have been on the outs over the lack of Brits on the battlefield in Iran. Trump’s erratic tariffs, his contempt for NATO, and uneven support for Ukraine’s defense against a Russian invasion have left him fairly alone. Vladimir Putin seems uncanny in his management of a relationship with Trump despite the menace facing former Eastern Bloc nations. And while unemployment is low and the stock market is high, consumer confidence is down in the dumps, and the latest Fox News poll finds Democrats have the edge over Republicans on economic issues for the first time since 2010.

It’s hard to imagine Charles giving the kind of speech Elisabeth delivered to such glowing reviews. “Some people believe that power grows from the barrel of the gun,” the Queen said. “So it can, but history shows that it never grows well nor for very long. Force, in the end, is sterile. We have gone a better way; our societies rest on mutual agreement, on contract and on consensus.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/35-years-ago-queen-elizabeth-120000701.html

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