King Charles Tries to Stop Another Historic Break With America

To say the special relationship is going through a rough patch ahead of King Charles III’s visit would be an exercise in British understatement.

The 77-year-old monarch will arrive in Washington on Monday with ties between the UK and the US at their lowest point since the Suez Crisis in the 1950s. While President Donald Trump often praises Charles as a “fantastic man,” he’s been heaping scorn on the country’s elected prime minister, mocking Keir Starmer as weak and unreliable for refusing to join America’s initial strikes on Iran.