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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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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 Museum and Memorial was the first time that a British monarch had visited the space since it opened in 2014.
The couple laid the flowers alongside the reflecting pool, which is one of two etched with the names of victims of the attack and features waterfalls pouring down into a square chasm. Standing to the side of the royal couple were firefighters and officers from the New York Police Department, the Port Authority Police Department and the New York Fire Department, in dress uniforms.
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.”
After the Sept. 11 event, the king is expected to meet with youth in Harlem and later with business executives, while the queen will participate in a literary 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 “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, 3:22 p.m. ET
Sarah Lyall
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.
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 members of the British diaspora 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.
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
“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
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
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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April 29, 2026, 1:15 p.m. ET
Michael D. Shear
Chief U.K. correspondent
The chief executive of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, Beth Hillman, noted that 67 of the people who died in the attacks were British nationals. “It’s a momentous space that recognizes the loss that New York, the United States, the U.K. and the world suffered on that day,” Hillman said. “So their majesties’ visiting is a chance for us to elevate that around the world as we try to make sure people who are too young to remember 9/11 realize what happened that day.”
April 29, 2026, 1:07 p.m. ET
Max Bearak
It has been nearly a quarter of a century since the Sept. 11 attacks. This is the first time a British monarch has visited New York’s ground zero since the memorial opened. Queen Elizabeth II
laid a wreath at the site
in 2010.
April 29, 2026, 1:04 p.m. ET
Max Bearak
While one reason for the visit is, of course, to pay tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, another is to subtly remind President Trump that the last time Britain fought alongside the United States in a war wasn’t so long ago. 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. When NATO invoked its Article 5 clause after Sept. 11, many of its member states, including Britain, sent troops to Afghanistan and, later, Iraq.
April 29, 2026, 12:58 p.m. ET
Max Bearak
King Charles III and Queen Camilla have arrived at the Sept. 11 memorial. Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is with them.
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April 29, 2026, 12:18 p.m. ET
Jeff Mays
Reporting on New York City politics
When asked what he would tell the king if they spoke, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he “would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.” The
105.6-carat diamond
was taken from an 11-year-old Indian prince in the 1840s and presented to Queen Victoria. India has long lobbied for its return.
April 29, 2026, 11:44 a.m. ET
Jeff Mays
Reporting on New York City politics
Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Democratic socialist mayor, has sought to distance himself from King Charles ahead of the king’s visit to the city this afternoon. At a news conference, Mamdani said he would be attending an event with the king, queen and elected officials to honor the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
April 29, 2026, 11:39 a.m. ET
Andy Newman
Reporting on New York City
The royal visit to the 9/11 Memorial has prompted the closure of the WTC Cortlandt subway station on the No. 1 line until sometime after 1 p.m., when the king and queen will head uptown to separate events, though probably not on the subway. Subway riders are advised to use the Rector Street stop, one station south of WTC Cortlandt.
April 29, 2026, 9:15 a.m. ET
Chelsia Rose Marcius
The security for King Charles and Queen Camilla’s New York visit will cause traffic headaches.
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A motorcade carrying King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Washington on Monday.
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Heightened security in New York City during a visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday will involve intermittent road closures and traffic delays throughout Manhattan, according to the New York Police Department.
Police officials did not provide specific details about the security arrangements, but urged commuters to use public transportation.
The royal couple’s scheduled stops include a visit with young people in Harlem, the 9/11 Memorial and the New York Public Library’s main branch on Fifth Avenue, where Camilla plans to donate a Roo doll to fill out the library’s Winnie-the-Pooh collection. The 1 line of the subway system is skipping the WTC Cortlandt station until after the royal couple leaves the 9/11 Memorial; passengers are advised to use the Rector Street station six blocks south.
New York City hosts hundreds of foreign dignitaries every year, and royal visitors are hardly uncommon. There were no indications that security measures would be even more stringent than usual for such an event, though this trip comes just days after a man from California was charged with
attempting to assassinate President Trump
at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday at the Washington Hilton.
The police and federal authorities routinely provide protection during state visits, and the department’s Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau monitors potential danger. So far, there are no known credible threats to the royals, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter.
Charles visited New York several times before being
crowned in 2023
after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. During his first trip to the city in 1981,
more than 1,700 city police officers guarded the then-prince
. An additional 300 members of the State Department and Secret Service steered his detail away from demonstrations during calls for the independence for Northern Ireland.
Andy Newman
contributed reporting.
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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 on the day of King Charles III’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 in the front row at a Majo
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