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King Charles' Security Under Review Ahead of DC Visit
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6:15Now PlayingMishal Husain, Host of 'The Mishal Husain Show,' discusses the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner and how the heightened security risk might impact King Charles' state visit this week.
King Charles III’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, lived to the ripe old age of 96, giving the UK public a lot of time to consider how her son would perform as monarch.
A common concern, for many years, was that Charles would be too political for the throne. A man of strong opinions, he championed environmental causes and intervened in areas such as architecture.
Yet as king, Charles has become a highly-disciplined monarch adept at speaking only when necessary, a master of subtlety.
Today, as he arrives in Washington to meet with Donald Trump, he’ll require those skills turned up to the max, with UK-US relations at their lowest ebb in decades and the president having just escaped another attempted shooting.
Charles’ four-day visit includes a bilateral meeting with Trump, a White House banquet and a speech to a joint session of Congress. The president is a fan of the king — a “fantastic man” — and has suggested the pomp and ceremony may be a chance to mend relations.
The king is supposed to be strictly apolitical, but is likely to try to nudge his fellow head of state in a more amiable direction.
When Trump visited Britain last year, Charles gave a pretty obvious nod to White House policy when he said that “we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine” during a set-piece speech to a room full of the US administration’s most senior officials.
Otherwise, Charles will be looking for the visit to go off without any further drama following the weekend shooting.
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