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King Charles III charmed President Trump and hailed longstanding U.S.-British ties at a glittering state dinner on Tuesday. His state visit was set to continue with a wreath-laying ceremony in Lower Manhattan.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla will spend Wednesday in New York City, the second leg of their four-day state visit, following a day of carefully choreographed royal diplomacy in the nation’s capital.
In the morning, the royal couple will pay their respects to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks during a visit to the memorial, accompanied by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other local officials.
U.S.-British relations are arguably at their lowest point in decades over the war in Iran and Mr. Trump’s scathing attacks on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Seeking to ease that tension, Charles hailed the longstanding ties between the two countries at a glittering state dinner at the White House on Tuesday night. He stuck a similarly optimistic tone hours earlier in an address to Congress.
In that address, Charles looked ahead to Wednesday’s Sept. 11 ceremony: “We stood with you then,” he said
“And we stand with you now in solemn remembrance of a day that shall never be forgotten.”
After the Sept. 11 event, the king will meet with youth in Harlem and business executives, while the queen will participate in a literacy event at a public library.
The final event in New York will take place in the evening, when the king and queen will attend a reception that will include what the British Embassy called “celebrated creative and cultural figures from both sides of the Atlantic.”
Here’s what else to know:
State Dinner:
Charles sprinkled jokes among carefully chosen references to the United States and Britain’s shared history before an appreciative audience of Trump allies and friends. He drew laughter when he said that the dinner was “an improvement on the Boston Tea Party” while inserting some
subtle rebuttals to Mr. Trump
.
Royal Gift:
Charles brought Trump the original but now highly polished bell from the H.M.S. Trump, a
British submarine
that served in World War II.
Visit Continues:
The royals will return to the Washington area Wednesday evening ahead of events in Virginia on Thursday.
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April 29, 2026, 8:28 a.m. ET
Megan Specia
Reporting from London
For a royal family in turmoil, the state visit could be a moment of positivity.
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The royal family at Buckingham Palace in on the day of King Charles’s coronation in 2023.
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The family turmoil that King Charles III has weathered in the nearly three years since his coronation has amounted to the most significant crisis for the monarchy in decades.
His brother, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office in connection with his
ties to Jeffrey Epstein
, the convicted sex offender. Charles’s son Harry, who lives in California, has spoken about his
rift with his father
in a book and television interviews.
Charles is making his state visit to the United States at the behest of the British government, and much has been said about the positive impact that it could have on the fractured relationship between Britain and the United States. But royal experts say it is also an opportunity for the monarchy to highlight the role it can play in a modern democratic society.
“This is a key moment where the monarchy can shine on the international stage, if you like, make clear that it has the role to play in the mid-21st century,” said Ed Owens, a historian and expert on the British royal family. “Back home in Britain, there are growing doubts about its utility, growing ambivalence and a growing disenchantment with the institution.”
While the majority of Britons have a positive view of the monarchy, younger people in the country tend to hold more negative views of the institution as well as of Charles,
according to polls
. Less than half of 18 to 24 year olds (45 percent) say the country should continue to have a monarchy
Mr. Owens said the institution had been “battered by storms ever since Charles came to the throne, and I think he recognizes this.”
The British royal family has taken on a more important role in the country’s international diplomacy in recent years, thanks in part to President Trump’s seeming fondness for the House of Windsor. Members of the family have also been sent elsewhere,
like Saudi Arabia
, to forge ties in places with their own longstanding royal families.
Ben Judah, a former special adviser to Britain’s foreign secretary, said
in a post on X
that political instability in Britain — with
four prime ministers
in the past five years — had made the monarchy a crucial point of stability.
“In all these encounters the King genuinely matters diplomatically,” Mr. Judah wrote. “This has only increased as the political carousel has spun out of control”
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April 29, 2026, 6:32 a.m. ET
Francesca Regalado
Here’s a look back at Charles’s past U.S. trips.
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Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, toured the Point Reyes farmers market near San Francisco in 2005.
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King Charles III’s state visit this week includes a stop in Virginia, where he is set to attend a quintessential American event: a block party. It will not be the first time the British monarch has immersed himself in American traditions.
As the Prince of Wales, he sat front row at a Major League Baseball game, rode on San Francisco’s cable cars and stopped by a farmers’ market. He attended a college football game in Georgia and a barbecue at Camp David.
Here are some highlights from Charles’s trips to the United States throughout his life:
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Charles and Tricia Nixon watched a Washington Senators baseball game on July 18, 1970.
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A guest of the Nixons
Like many fresh college graduates, Charles embarked on an overseas trip after leaving Cambridge University at 21. His first visit to the United States in the summer of 1970 was an informal trip at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon’s daughters, Tricia and Julie.
The Nixons hosted Charles and his sister, Princess Anne, at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, where they
grilled
steaks and corn on the cob. He ran down the Washington Monument’s nearly 900 steps with David Eisenhower, Julie Nixon’s husband, and took in a Washington Senators baseball game with Tricia Nixon.
Charles was not enthralled by America’s pastime, Mr. Eisenhower said.
“I had to explain the game to him; he didn’t know anything about it,” Mr. Eisenhower recalled in an interview with
The Guardian
newspaper published this week. “And second, this was mid-July, and in the afternoon, so you can imagine how hot it was.”
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Prince Charles on a cable car surrounded by police in riot gear during his visit to San Francisco, Calif., in 1977.
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A cross-country tour
Charles made his first official visit to the United States when he was nearly 29 and “
probably the most popular man in Britain
,” as The New York Times put it in 1977.
His tour included Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis and Atlanta, where he became the first British royal to attend a collegiate American football game (the Georgia Bulldogs lost to the Kentucky Wildcats, 33-0).
His mother, Queen Elizabeth II, had visited New York City, Philadelphia and Washington a year earlier.
“I’m visiting the places she missed, which is most of the United States,” he said.
His last stop was San Francisco, getting on one of the city’s iconic cable cars. Police officers in riot gear
surrounded him
on the ride, as protesters who sympathized with the independence movement in Northern Ireland mixed with crowds eager to see the prince.
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Malcolm Forbes hosts Prince Charles and Nancy Reagan, the first lady, on his yacht in New York City.
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An evening in New York
Charles made an overnight stop in New York City in June 1981, arriving on the Concorde from Britain. Nancy Reagan, the first lady, joined him on a cruise around the Statue of Liberty.
His trip coincided with the 206th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a pivotal event in the American Revolution, and
Charles joked
: “We always make sure a good representative comes on these occasions.”
Later, he attended a ballet performance of “Sleeping Beauty,” which was interrupted by four Irish Republican Army supporters who heckled Charles. Two years earlier, members of the group had assassinated his great-uncle and mentor,
Earl Mountbatten
, a British war hero.
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Prince Charles and Princess Diana view a display at a J.C. Penney store in suburban Washington, D.C., in 1985.
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Visits with Diana
When Charles returned to the United States in 1985, it was his wife, Diana, who drew crowds. They visited a J.C. Penney department store, and she danced with John Travolta at a state dinner at the White House.
The Prince and Princess of Wales had been married for four years and welcomed sons William and Harry, but rumors of marital discord were swirling,
according to The Times
.
Four years later, Charles made a
solo trip
to Washington. He met with Vice President Dan Quayle, discussing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Soviet Union, which was on the brink of collapse.
Diana had paid a separate trip to New York two weeks earlier to visit a shelter for the homeless and a hospital for children with AIDS. A spokeswoman for the British Embassy denied at the time that there was a rift between the couple.
They divorced in August 1996.
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Charles and Camilla walked through the Ninth Ward of New Orleans in November 2005, months after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Introducing Camilla
Charles visited the United States in November 2005 with Camilla Parker-Bowles, his longtime partner whom he had married a few months earlier. The new Duchess of Cornwall
showed
good humor when she was badgered by tabloid photographers in New York.
The royal couple visited Washington, San Francisco and New Orleans, walking through streets that had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina months earlier.
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Charles and President Barack Obama at the White House in 2015.
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A speech on the environment
Charles’s last U.S. visit as the Prince of Wales was in 2018 for the state funeral of former President George H.W. Bush. Three years earlier, he had met with President Barack Obama in the White House and visited Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.
Charles, a longtime advocate for environmental protection and sustainability, raised the alarm on climate change in a
speech
at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville, Ky. “In failing the Earth,” he said, “We are failing humanity.”
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April 29, 2026, 5:40 a.m. ET
John Yoon
H.M.S. Trump: The story behind the World War II submarine that produced Charles’s gift to the president.
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King Charles III presented President Trump with the original bell from H.M.S. Trump, a British submarine that served during World War II.
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King Charles III presented President Trump with a gift on Tuesday during his state visit to the United States: the original bell from the H.M.S. Trump, a British submarine that served during World War II.
The polished brass bell once hung on the submarine’s conning tower, the raised control structure atop the vessel, Charles said in a speech celebrating the Anglo-American alliance. It bears the ship’s name in capital letters and the year 1944, when it was launched from a British shipyard.
“May it stand as a testimony to our nations’ shared history and shining future,” Charles said. “And should you ever need to get hold of us, well, just give us a ring!”
The vessel, which doesn’t appear to have a connection to President Trump’s family, is credited with sinking several Japanese ships in the Pacific War in some of the final naval operations of World War II.
H.M.S. Trump was part of the Royal Navy’s T-class, a group of long range, diesel-electric submarines built shortly before and during the war. The submarines shared a common design and bore names beginning with T, after the lead ship of the class, H.M.S. Triton, which entered service in 1938.
H.M.S. Trump was the only Royal Navy ship to bear the name. It was not immediately clear on Wednesday what the name stood for.
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H.M.S. Trump at sea, in an undated photo.
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The vessel was built by the British manufacturing company Vickers Armstrong after being ordered in 1941, according to Maurice Cocker’s “Observer’s Directory of Royal Naval Submarines.” It sailed to the Pacific Ocean in 1945 to take part in the final stages of the war.
The submarine sank several Japanese vessels during its service,
according to the Naval Historical Society of Australia
. Working with its sister ship, H.M.S. Tiptoe, it sank one of the last ships to be destroyed by a British warship in World War II.
The T-class submarines — 53 of which were built — were armed with 10 torpedo tubes. They offered a high standard of accommodation, with a bunk for each crew member, according to “HM Submarines in Camera: An Illustrated History of British Submarines” by J.J. Tall and Paul Kemp.
H.M.S. Trump was fitted with advanced “SJ radar,” which helped it to detect enemy ships more effectively than many of its contemporaries. It also had a hull that allowed it to withstand pressure at deeper diving depths than other submarines.
The vessel survived the war. For much of its service, it was attached to the 4th Submarine Squadron in Australia, where along with other submarines it helped train the navies of Australia, New Zealand and other countries, according to “The T-Class Submarine” by Mr. Kemp.
It returned to British waters in 1969, after cuts to military spending, and was scrapped in Newport in 1971.
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April 29, 2026, 3:05 a.m. ET
Jin Yu Young
King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit New York’s 9/11 memorial.
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The south tower reflecting pool at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan last year.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla are expected to kick off their trip to New York City on Wednesday with a wreath-laying ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, as the royals continue their four-day state visit to the United States.
The morning ceremony in Lower Manhattan, set to include Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other officials, will commemorate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The royals are expected to meet with victims’ families.
British officials said the trip was planned to allow the king and queen to spend time outside the nation’s capital. Charles spent the first two days of the trip in Washington, where he emphasized the durability of U.S.-British ties despite recent strains over the war in Iran. He met privately with President Trump, addressed Congress and attended a state dinner.
In his speech to Congress on Tuesday, Charles noted that NATO had invoked
Article 5,
which commits member states in the alliance to collective defense, to help defend the United States after the Sept. 11 attacks. He also said that the United Nations Security Council had been “united in the face of terror.”
“We answered the call together — as our people have done so for more than a century, shoulder to shoulder,” he said, citing conflicts from the world wars to Afghanistan.
That reference was part of the king’s effort to underscore the value of the trans-Atlantic alliance, at a time when
Europeans have increasing doubts
that Mr. Trump remains committed to NATO and its collective defense pledge.
After the Sept. 11 event on Wednesday, Charles is expected to visit
Harlem Grown
, a nonprofit in Upper Manhattan that oversees community gardens and teaches children about urban farming, sustainability and nutrition. He will also attend a U.S.-British trade event.
Separately, Camilla is expected to visit the New York Public Library’s main branch for a reception and a panel hosted by
Jenna Bush Hager
, a co-host of NBC’s “Today” show. The panelists will include the novelists
Harlan Coben
and
Min Jin Lee
.
At the library, Camilla will also meet with representatives of domestic violence charities and tour a permanent collection that includes teddy bears believed to have inspired the English author A.A. Milne to write children’s books featuring the character Winnie the Pooh.
The royal couple’s day in New York is scheduled to end with a reception at Christie’s, the British-founded auction house.
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April 28, 2026, 7:11 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
and
Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Michael D. Shear is the chief U.K. correspondent and is covering the king’s trip to Washington, New York and Virginia. Zolan Kanno-Youngs is a reporter covering the White House.
Beneath King Charles’s jokes and decorum lay a subtle rebuttal to Trump.
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King Charles III addressing Congress on Tuesday.
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King Charles III quoted Oscar Wilde, joking that the British have everything in common with America “except, of course, language.” President Trump said the morning’s gloomy rain reminded him of a “beautiful British day” and noted that his mother thought young Prince Charles was “so cute.” Both men waxed poetic about the bonds between their countries.
And yet, on the first full day of a state visit focused on the shared history between the United States and Britain, the king sprinkled in some ever-so-subtle rebuttals to Mr. Trump. Charles spoke on Tuesday of the value of the trans-Atlantic alliance, the importance of checks and balances and his passion for the environment. He even spoke of his time in the Royal Navy, after Mr. Trump belittled British naval capabilities in recent weeks.
The king tucked his rejoinders into a mostly lighthearted speech to Congress on Tuesday afternoon and during evening remarks at a formal banquet at the White House.
“Please rest assured I am not here as part of some cunning rear-guard action!” the king told lawmakers in the afternoon, only the second time a British monarch had addressed Congress.
The mostly disciplined and careful public appearances by both Charles and Mr. Trump came at a dire moment in American-British relations, arguably at their lowest point in decades over the war in Iran and Mr. Trump’s scathing attacks on NATO.
But for a day (and maybe just a day), the special relationship that has developed over the past 250 years seemed — on the surface at least — special.
In a rarity for the Trump era, the president stuck mostly to his script during the day’s ceremonial events. He did not invite a horde of reporters into the Oval Office just before their meeting to field questions on Iran, the ballroom or Greenland in the presence of his visiting foreign dignitary. He did not lash out at another global ally.
In one apparently unscripted remark during the state dinner, Mr. Trump referred to the war in Iran and insisted that “Charles agrees with me.” It was an awkward moment because Charles studiously stays out of such matt
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