{"id":21943,"date":"2026-04-28T00:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/charles-to-argue-for-a-strong-us-uk-partnership-in-address-to-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T00:47:31","slug":"charles-to-argue-for-a-strong-us-uk-partnership-in-address-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/charles-to-argue-for-a-strong-us-uk-partnership-in-address-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles to argue for a strong US-UK partnership in address to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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King Charles will use his speech to Congress to help repair the \u201cspecial relationship\u201d between the U.S. and Britain that has been under strain over the Iran war.<\/p>\n

The king plans to focus on reconciliation and renewal in a speech Tuesday before the House and Senate that is expected to run about 20 minutes, according to royal aides.<\/p>\n

Charles will celebrate \u201cone of the greatest alliances in history,\u201d which has been tested as President Donald Trump complains about Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s reluctance, along with other NATO allies, to provide assistance to the U.S.-led attacks on Iran, the aides said.<\/p>\n

He will reference the shared national security interests of the U.S. and the U.K., including NATO, the Middle East, Ukraine and the trilateral AUKUS pact with Australia.<\/p>\n

Starmer\u2019s handling of some of those issues has provoked criticism from Trump, who derisively referred to the prime minister as \u201cnot Winston Churchill\u201d after the U.K. initially didn\u2019t allow the U.S. to use its bases to bomb Iran at the beginning of the war.<\/p>\n

When asked earlier in this month about his relationship with Starmer and the state of the U.S.-U.K. partnership, Trump told ITV News it was \u201cnot good at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charles is expected to acknowledge that tension by noting that the two nations have not always seen eye to eye, but that \u201ctime and again, our two countries have always found ways to come back together,\u201d according to royal aides.<\/p>\n

In his address, Charles also plans to tout the need to respect the rule of law and democratic traditions, and argue for the importance of trade and technology deals \u2014 a message that may go over less well with the administration.<\/p>\n

Royal aides said the king\u2019s remarks will also include a brief message of sympathy for Saturday\u2019s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.<\/p>\n

Dan Bloom contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King Charles will use his speech to Congress to help repair the \u201cspecial relationship\u201d between the U.S. and Britain that has been under strain over the Iran war. The king plans to focus on reconciliation and renewal in a speech Tuesday before the House and Senate that is expected to run about 20 minutes, according […]<\/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-21943","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\/21943","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=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}