King Charles Meets CEOs in Bid to Promote US-UK Investment

King Charles III speaks with business leaders during a UK-US trade event at Rockefeller Center in New York, on April 29.

Photographer: Cindy Ord/Getty Images/Bloomberg

King Charles III gathered leaders of some of the world’s biggest companies to encourage US-UK investment, as he swung through New York as part of a state visit aimed at shoring up ties between the two allies.

Charles met senior executives from Bank of America Corp., Blackstone Inc., Comcast Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, JPMorgan Chase & Co., OpenAI and Tishman Speyer during a gathering at Rockefeller Center on Wednesday. Representatives from GSK Plc, Octopus Energy Group Ltd. and Rolls-Royce Plc also attended the event designed to showcase US-UK commercial ties across the creative, energy, healthcare, financial services and technology industries.