King Charles III and Queen Camilla of Britain were received at the White House on Monday, where they had tea with the President of the United States. They then went to the British embassy’s garden party.
The United States rolled out the red carpet for Charles III. The British king and Queen Camilla were received with great pomp on Monday, April 27th at the White House by Donald Trump.
The American president and his wife Melania welcomed the royal couple at the south entrance of the White House before going inside the building for tea.
In various pictures, the two couples are seen sitting in the Green Room around a low table loaded with cups and pastries. A moment of life very much focused on Anglo-Saxon culture.
The four leaders then headed to the White House gardens to visit the beehives there. Followed by the press photographers, they discovered a display of honey pots, accompanied by aromatic plants.
Charles III, a fan of fauna and flora, also got to explore the south gardens of the White House.
The British crown also got a presentation of the model of the future ballroom of the White House, a project dear to Donald Trump, which was displayed in the gardens.
From tea to the end of the visit of the White House gardens, the visit lasted a little over an hour.
King Charles and Queen Camilla then made their way to the British embassy for a “garden party”, a “tradition of royal visits to Washington for decades,” as stated by the embassy.
Again, the royal couple was warmly welcomed to celebrate “friendship at the heart of the relationship between the UK and the US. A choir and musicians were present at the embassy entrance.
Many American political figures were present: the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Mike Johnson and one of his predecessors Nancy Pelosi, the US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and the Senator Ted Cruz.
British celebrities were also present including the Olympic diving champion Tom Daley.
This visit by King Charles III, kept despite the shootings that occurred over the weekend at the press gala attended by Donald Trump, remains widely criticized in the UK where the popularity of the US president is at an all-time low due to his engagement in the Middle East war. A state visit much less light-hearted than it may seem, also overshadowed by the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Now, Charles III enters the heart of his state visit to the United States on Tuesday, with a reception at the White House and a speech before Congress.
For his second day in Washington, the King of England will speak for about twenty minutes before the American Congress, 250 years after the declaration of independence of the American colonies from the British crown on July 4, 1776.
Before addressing the American parliamentarians, Charles III and Queen Camilla will be formally welcomed to the White House by Donald and Melania Trump with 21-gun salutes and a troop review.
