Overview
- Buckingham Palace, which unveiled the schedule Tuesday, set private tea and a closed-door Oval Office meeting with President Trump, a White House state dinner, and a rare address to a joint meeting of Congress that makes Charles only the second British monarch to do so since 1991.
- Trump, in a Wednesday phone interview with Sky News, praised the King as a “wonderful” person and said his strained relationship with Prime Minister Keir Starmer would not overshadow the visit.
- The palace confirmed the King and Queen will not meet Jeffrey Epstein survivors during the trip because of ongoing police inquiries, while Queen Camilla will meet groups that support survivors of domestic abuse.
- Starmer said the visit will go ahead to reinforce long-term ties and he condemned Trump’s earlier talk of “destroying a civilisation” in Iran as wrong.
- The four-day program runs April 27–30 in Washington, New York, and Virginia, followed by the King’s solo trip to Bermuda, in a tour designed to showcase UK–US ties after weeks of tension over the Iran war and Trump’s public criticism of the UK government.