Overview
- Charles and Camilla, who landed in Washington on Monday, were welcomed by President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for tea in the White House Green Room and a tour of the new beehive.
- The visit continues days after Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, with 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen in custody and one security officer wounded, as UK and U.S. officials say security is robust with only modest schedule tweaks.
- Tuesday’s program includes a South Lawn arrival ceremony, an Oval Office meeting, and a state dinner, and the King is set to address a joint meeting of Congress in the first such monarch speech since 1991.
- The public itinerary features a stop in New York to honor victims at the 9/11 memorial before further engagements later in the week.
- Officials on both sides cast the trip as a bid to steady the “special relationship” strained by the Iran war and Trump’s public criticism of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as the U.S. marks 250 years since independence.