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King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid flowers at the 9/11 memorial. Later, the king visited Harlem, while the queen attended an event at the New York Public Library.
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Michael Bloomberg, left, King Charles III and Queen Camilla laying flowers at the 9/11 memorial.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani greeting King Charles.
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Queen Camilla and Anna Wintour at the New York Public Library’s main branch.
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King Charles feeding chickens during a visit to an urban farm in Harlem.
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Queen Camilla waving to people outside the New York Public Library.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid a bouquet of flowers on Wednesday at the edge of a memorial pool in Lower Manhattan to commemorate the lives lost during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 67 of whom were British.
The brief ceremony took place on a chilly but sunny afternoon on the third day of the royal couple’s trip to the United States. Their tour of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum was the first time that a British monarch had visited the space since it opened in 2014. Later on Wednesday, they moved on to cheerier events elsewhere in the city.
U.S.-British relations are at one of their lowest points in decades, over the war in Iran and President Trump’s scathing attacks on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mr. Trump has repeatedly taken aim at NATO and is currently embroiled in a dispute with the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, over his reluctance to support the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
The royal visit to the Sept. 11 memorial was a subtle reminder of one of the last times Britain fought alongside the United States in a war. When NATO invoked its Article 5 clause after Sept. 11, many of its member states, including Britain, sent troops to Afghanistan and, later, Iraq.
Charles made a reference to the attacks during an address to Congress on Tuesday. “We stood with you then,” he said. “And we stand with you now in solemn remembrance of a day that shall never be forgotten.”
Later, the king met in Harlem with children in a youth program that runs an urban farm on West 134th Street, where he fed lettuce to chickens.
The queen spoke on the power of literature at the New York Public Library’s main branch. She gave the institution a bespoke replica of Roo, one of the characters in the “Winnie-the-Pooh” series, a British classic. (The library houses the original stuffed animals that inspired the Pooh series, but the Roo figure was lost long ago.)
The final event in New York will take place in the evening, when the king and queen will attend a reception that will include “celebrated creative and cultural figures from both sides of the Atlantic,” according to the British Embassy.
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 on Tuesday. The king 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 Mr. 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, 4:55 p.m. ET
Sarah Lyall
Reporting from New York
In her remarks at the New York Public Library, Queen Camilla spoke of the magic and power of reading and praised the library as a place that “has the power to change its visitors.”
April 29, 2026, 4:53 p.m. ET
Remy Tumin
Celebrities are beginning to arrive at Christie’s Auction House at Rockefeller Center, where the king is hosting a gala. The event’s co-chair, Lionel Richie, is here, and the supermodel Iman just walked the red carpet in a black pantsuit and matching fascinator.
April 29, 2026, 4:52 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
Chief U.K. correspondent
King Charles III attended a business reception on the 65th floor of Rockefeller Center on Wednesday afternoon. The reception included some of the biggest names in American business, including Ruth Porat, the president of Alphabet, Google’s parent company; C.S. Venkatakrishnan, the chief executive of Barclays; Brian Moynihan, the chief executive of Bank of America; Stephen Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone; and Meg O’Neill, the chief executive of BP.
April 29, 2026, 4:31 p.m. ET
Sarah Lyall
Reporting from New York
The queen, accompanied by the actress Sarah Jessica Parker, also visited the office of Anthony Marx, the New York Public Library’s president, to see some of the library’s treasures, including a copy of the Declaration of Independence, a 1775 map of New York City and an 1812 letter written by Jane Austen.
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April 29, 2026, 4:05 p.m. ET
Sarah Lyall
Reporting from New York
Queen Camilla kept her gift to the New York Public Library — a bespoke replica of Roo, an original “Winnie-the-Pooh” stuffed animal that was lost in the 1930s — in her purse while carrying it into the library, according to Anthony Marx, the library’s president. She then presented it to the library on a Union Jack cushion.
April 29, 2026, 4:00 p.m. ET
Andy Newman
New York has welcomed previous British monarchs with 21-gun salutes and lobster bisque.
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King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were driven up the West Side Highway in Manhattan en route to the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens.
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Visits to New York City by reigning British monarchs have been exceedingly rare: Wednesday’s is only the fifth.
Each one has been an occasion of tremendous fanfare. Here is a very brief look back:
June 1939:
With a world war looming, King George VI was invited to the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help rally support for American aid to Britain. After visiting Washington, the king and Queen Elizabeth arrived in New York
aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Warrington
, where they were greeted by throngs at the base of Manhattan.
The queen was given a New York welcome by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s executive secretary,
who told her
, “You’ve been here about four minutes and all New York’s in love with you.” The queen replied, “What an awfully nice thing for you to say.”
Then the royal couple was whisked off to the World’s Fair in Queens.
The scene there, as reported by The New York Times
: “On Flushing Meadows, where the redcoats of King George III fought the ragged Continentals a century and a half ago, King George VI reigned for an afternoon, with Queen Elizabeth by his side, over the little principality known as the World’s Fair.”
The king, The Times noted, “appeared very tired and showed his fatigue in the mechanical way with which he wearily waved his right hand.”
October 1957:
Queen Elizabeth II — the daughter of the queen who visited in 1939 — arrived in Manhattan aboard the Staten Island Ferry.
She and Prince Philip were greeted with a ticker-tape parade and a 21-gun salute that,
The Times reported
, “echoed and re-echoed among the towering buildings of Lower Manhattan as the West Point band played ‘God Save the Queen.’” At a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria, the royal couple dined on lobster bisque, squab, and raspberry sherbet garnished with whipped cream and meringue.
After accepting the Medal of Honor and the Scroll of the City of New York, the queen said, “It is impossible after a journey such as this not to be impressed by the enormous fund of good will which exists between us and which I pray may long continue.” She added, “I hope that I will be able to come here again.” Nineteen years later, she would.
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In 1957, Queen Elizabeth II attended a luncheon in her honor at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan.
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July 1976:
On her second trip to New York, amid the American bicentennial celebration, Queen Elizabeth II was
greeted with a bouquet
by Mayor Abraham Beame’s 4-year-old granddaughter, Julia. The queen’s visit included a stop at Bloomingdale’s department store, where, The Times reported, “the queen seemed slightly bewildered,” possibly because she did not typically do her own shopping.
As she watched a model twirl in a mid-calf tweed dirndl skirt by Calvin Klein, the queen exclaimed, “Gracious, do you really wear skirts that long here?”
July 2010:
Queen Elizabeth II’s final visit to New York was a more somber occasion. She laid a wreath at ground zero and officially opened a memorial in nearby Hanover Square to the 67 British citizens who died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
“Handed a pair of scissors,”
The Times reported
, “Elizabeth snipped a red ribbon. Just before 6 p.m., she climbed back into her car and, just like that, the queen was gone.”
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April 29, 2026, 3:22 p.m. ET
Sarah Lyall
Reporting from New York
The queen visits N.Y.’s library to spend time with the original Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Queen Camilla speaking at the New York Public Library on Wednesday.
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Queen Camilla on Wednesday visited the main branch of the New York Public Library, where she spent time with a small, carefully preserved stuffed animal that the library’s president and chief executive, Anthony Marx, called “the world’s most famous teddy bear.”
That would be the original Winnie-the-Pooh, a toy bought from Harrods department store in the 1920s and given by A.A. Milne, author of the “Pooh” books, to his 1-year-old son, Christopher Robin Milne. Along with the other stuffed animals that inspired the books — Kanga, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger — Pooh resides in pride of place in a climate-controlled case in the library.
Alas, Kanga’s baby, Roo, was lost by Christopher Robin somewhere in an English apple orchard in the 1930s. Camilla came bearing a gift: a bespoke replica of Roo. She presented it to the library on a Union Jack cushion.
Queen Camilla was at the library to promote her literary charity,
the Queen’s Reading Room
, and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the “Winnie-the-Pooh” books, which were first published in 1926. She said she hoped not to lose her voice during her speech.
Speaking to a reception of library luminaries and important British expatriates in New York, including Anna Wintour and the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins, Camilla said, “As you can imagine, I have been talking quite a lot over the past few days.”
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April 29, 2026, 3:09 p.m. ET
Claire Fahy
Reporting on New York City
As the king left the farm, teachers at Public School 175 across the street cheered and waved from a window facing the street. The king lowered the passenger-side window of his car to wave at people gathered on the street as the car pulled away.
April 29, 2026, 3:08 p.m. ET
Claire Fahy
Reporting on New York City
Toward the end of the king’s visit, a student handed him a note written with orange and purple markers. “That’s fantastic,” the king said. As he left, he handed Hillery a brown box tied with a red bow. The box contained honey from bees at Highgrove House, one of the king’s residences.
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April 29, 2026, 3:06 p.m. ET
Claire Fahy
Reporting on New York City
Tony Hillery, the founder and chief executive of Harlem Grown, a nonprofit that operates urban farms to provide youth development programming, gave the king a tour. “Excuse me, I’m a little nervous,” Hillery said as he introduced the king to the other Harlem Grown members, before praising the king’s speech to Congress the day before.
April 29, 2026, 3:03 p.m. ET
Claire Fahy
Reporting on New York City
King Charles spent close to an hour at Harlem Grown’s urban farm on West 134th Street, watching students plant lavender and make mango salsa. But he was particularly enthusiastic about feeding the chickens, asking within moments of arriving whether he would get to participate in that activity. He later got his wish, dropping lettuce leaves into an enclosure of chickens as he chatted with school children from Thurgood Marshall Lower School.
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April 29, 2026, 2:47 p.m. ET
Sarah Lyall
Reporting from New York
“I’m hoping my voice isn’t going to conk out before the end of this speech,” Queen Camilla said to an audience of library luminaries and important British expatriates in New York, including Anna Wintour and the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins. “As you can imagine, I have been talking quite a lot over the past few days.”
April 29, 2026, 2:43 p.m. ET
Sarah Lyall
Reporting from New York
Queen Camilla is now at the New York Public Library, where she is promoting her literary charity,
the Queen’s Reading Room
, and visiting the carefully preserved stuffed animals that inspired A.A. Milne’s “Winnie-the-Pooh” books — Kanga, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger and Pooh himself — which reside in pride of place in a climate-controlled case in the library. Kanga’s baby, Roo, was lost in the 1930s. The queen came bearing a gift: a bespoke replica of Roo.
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April 29, 2026, 2:36 p.m. ET
James Barron
Reporting on New York City
Queen Camilla is expected soon at the New York Public Library, where she will be the first royal to visit since the library’s founding in 1895 — by coincidence the year her husband’s maternal grandfather (later King George VI) was born.
April 29, 2026, 1:53 p.m. ET
Claire Fahy
Reporting on New York City
King Charles III is en route to Harlem Grown’s urban farm on West 134th Street in Manhattan. Harlem Grown is a nonprofit that provides youth development programming for local students. The king is expected to meet with community members and students during his visit.
April 29, 2026, 1:37 p.m. ET
Max Bearak
King Charles III and Queen Camilla have left the memorial and are headed to separate events. The king will be in Harlem to meet with a youth empowerment organization, and the queen will be at the New York Public Library’s main branch to participate in a panel discussion.
April 29, 2026, 1:37 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
Chief U.K. correspondent
The person who handed the king and queen the flowers was Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Thompson of the 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland. He is the king’s equerry, which is the main attendant to the monarch. The equerry was dressed in a formal uniform, which included a tan-colored Scottish kilt.
April 29, 2026, 1:29 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
Chief U.K. correspondent
After laying the bouquet under a cloudy sky, the royal couple greeted families of victims of the attacks and those who responded on that day. Under two rows of white tents, the king and queen listened to stories about how Sept. 11 affected New Yorkers.
April 29, 2026, 1:26 p.m. ET
Max Bearak
The king’s appearances before Congress and at a celebrity-studded state dinner last night were filled with laugh lines and standing ovations. Today’s event at the Sept. 11 memorial is of course much more somber, though the king does appear to be involved in warm conversations with many of those in attendance.
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April 29, 2026, 1:24 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
Chief U.K. correspondent
The bouquet that the king and queen laid next to the reflecting pool was a medley of white flowers from farms in New York and New Jersey, according to the British embassy. They included white lilac, sweet peas, peonies and white daffodils.
April 29, 2026, 1:19 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
Chief U.K. correspondent
The royal couple moved to where Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City, and the governors of New York State and New Jersey, Kathy Hochul and Mikie Sherrill, were waiting. Neither the royal couple nor any of the officials made any public remarks, and it was not clear if the king and queen had conversations with any of them.
April 29, 2026, 1:16 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
Chief U.K. correspondent
With Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor who is the chairman of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid a bouquet of flowers at the edge of the south memorial pool to commemorate the lives lost on 9/11.
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