{"id":20486,"date":"2026-03-24T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/king-charles-to-make-first-us-state-visit-address-congress-next-month\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:31:41","slug":"king-charles-to-make-first-us-state-visit-address-congress-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/king-charles-to-make-first-us-state-visit-address-congress-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles to make first US state visit, address Congress next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>England\u2019s King Charles III will make his first state visit to Washington next month.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his visit, the king will address Congress in a joint meeting the week of April 27, according to two people familiar with the matter granted anonymity to discuss plans ahead of a formal announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The visit was first reported by Punchbowl News.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first time a British royal has addressed Congress since 1991, when Charles\u2019 mother, Queen Elizabeth II, became the first British monarch to speak before a packed House chamber.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump visited London in September, and House Speaker Mike Johnson visited in January as part of America\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations. Johnson addressed Parliament during his visit, becoming the first House speaker to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Charles\u2019 visit comes as Trump continues to pressure Prime Minister Keir Starmer for assistance in the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer has distanced himself from the war, previously stating, \u201cThis is not our war, and we are not getting dragged into this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s King Charles III will make his first state visit to Washington next month. As part of his visit, the king will address Congress in a joint meeting the week of April 27, according to two people familiar with the matter granted anonymity to discuss plans ahead of a formal announcement. The visit was first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}