Two hundred and fifty years after the United States declared independence from Great Britain, the great-great-great-great-great grandson of King George III will be strolling the streets of Washington, D.C., to see how the revolutionaries are faring these days.
King Charles III is following through on plans for a state visit with President Donald Trump at the White House this week — the most refined, powerless aristocrat in the world side-by-side with the “blue-collar billionaire” shaping global politics in his image.
Trump did little to moderate his speech in the weeks leading up to this royal engagement: lambasting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as “weak,” writing off the British Navy’s vessels as “toys,” and questioning the very nature of the two countries’ long-celebrated “Special Relationship.”
The Pentagon even floated the idea of questioning British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands to punish the United Kingdom for a perceived lack of cooperation on Operation
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