Good day and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article podcast. It's Tuesday, April the 28th,

2026, and I am Chris Elkins, narrator. Today's daily article is authored by cultural theologian,

Dr. Jim Denison. King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived yesterday in Washington, D.C., where they met with

President and Mrs. Trump for a private tea and participated in a time capsule ceremony at the

British Embassy to commemorate America's 250th anniversary. Today, the king will address both houses

of Congress. This will be only the second time a British

monarch has addressed a joint session following Queen Elizabeth the second speech during her

state visit to the U.S. in 1991. The royal couple will then return to the White House for a state

dinner. Before leaving Washington tomorrow, they will lay a

wreath and flowers in honor of the fallen to recognize the military alliance between the U.S. and the

U.K. before moving on to New York, where they will recognize the 25th anniversary of 9-11 by visiting

with first responders and families of those who lost their lives on that

tragic day. After visiting other organizations in the city, they will travel to Virginia to attend

various events, including a block party celebrating America's 250th birthday. All that to say,

expect the royal couple to make headlines across the rest of this week.

In one sense, it's highly ironic that the monarch of the empire whose defeat in our War of Independence

we are celebrating this year would cross the Atlantic to celebrate with us. Imagine the president of Mexico

joining us in Texas to commemorate our victory at the Battle of San

Jacinto. In another sense, however, it's not ironic at all. Only two years after independence,

the U.S. sent John Adams to England for an audience with King George III, hoping to restore trade

and cultural relations with what was still the world's

great superpower. The monarch received Mr. Adams charitably because, as he wrote after the war was

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