King Charles III and Queen Camilla were in New York City on Wednesday for a series of events on the third day of their state visit, including a visit to the 9/11 Memorial at One World Trade Center.
Charles was greeted at the memorial by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the memorial’s chairman; current New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani; families of the victims of the attack; and first responders. Afterward, Charles joined children in feeding chickens for the nonprofit Harlem Grown, while Camilla attended an event at the New York Public Library to pay tribute to Winnie-the-Pooh, who turns 100 this year.
At Tuesday night’s state dinner, Charles brought a jovial tone, joking that President Trump “would be speaking French” if it were not for the U.K.
His lighthearted speech referred back to a comment Trump made to European leaders in January about World War II, when he said they would be speaking German if it were not for the U.S.
Charles joked to a laughing Trump: “Dare I say that, if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French.”
Charles’s comment came after his address to Congress, in which he spoke about the U.S. and the U.K.’s long-held alliance. The rare address was the second time in history that a British monarch had addressed Congress.
President Trump also held a closed-door meeting with Charles in the Oval Office on Tuesday, amid tense relations between the U.S. and U.K. over the Iran war.
Charles later returned to the White House for the state dinner, where Trump alluded to Charles’s feelings about Iran in what appeared to violate the convention of not revealing what a monarch has said in a private meeting.
Trump told the banquet: “We’re doing very well; we have militarily defeated that particular opponent, and we’re never going to let that opponent ever — Charles agrees with me, even more than I do — we’re never going to let that opponent have nuclear weapons.”
The four-day trip will conclude on Thursday, April 30.
