This is The Guardian.

They do go a bit weak knee at the site of a monarch.

It's that notion of history.

Remember, American's history is quite short.

The founding fathers were bold and imaginative rebels with a cause.

250 years ago, or, as we say in the United Kingdom, just the other day, they declared independence.

It was quality stuff. Coated, but not that coded. By royal standards, it was actually pretty direct.

This visit, and the rave reviews he's getting, the ovations, the laughter at the White House

will represent a big moment for him in his own life story.

A historic day for King Charles sent to Washington to salvage the ever-shakier special relationship.

There were jokes, there were digs.

The supposedly apolitical monarch even appealed to Trump on NATO and Ukraine.

But was the president listening to what the king was really saying?

From the Guardian's today in focus, this is the latest with me, Helen Pitt.

Joining me today is Guardian columnist Jonathan Friedland, who's also the host of our Politics Weekly America podcast. Lovely to see you, Jonathan. Good to be with you. So Tuesday was a pretty

historic day for King Charles. He was the first British monarch to address the US Congress since

his mum 35 years ago when the first George Bush was in the White

House, we're going to get to that speech a bit later. But let's start with his, I'd say,

more of a barnstormer of a speech, the one that he gave at a very lavish dinner at the White

House. I genuinely laughed, I think, five times while I was watching it. It was sort of Notting

Hill meets the darkest hour,

a lot of subtext and also a lot of jokes. What did you make of it? Yeah, it was a chance for King

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