I'm John Batson. This is the King Charles report. The headline in Reuters,

straightforwardly showing Mr. Trump gleeful over an invitation. King Charles invites Trump for

unprecedented second UK state visit. Donald Trump accepted an invitation from King Charles

the 27th the day before the Oval Office

Opera, to visit Britain, making the U.S. president the first elected political leader in modern

times to be hosted for two-state visits by British monarch.

In addition, I learned that Mr. Trump is invited to visit the king in the summertime at Balmower Castle in Scotland.

In addition, there was talk about what this just pointed to, the state visit, which would be in London.

Gregory, the king is not political, and yet weighing in with this generous invitation.

How to interpret this?

Your book, The Noble State, makes the case that without a political or extra territorial king, we all struggle with the state, head of government, making statements for all of the country, as opposed to

his or her partisans. Is the king's invitation to a man as controversial as Mr. Trump?

Is this a political risk for the king, a political risk for Mr. Trump, or is this as happy as it looks to Mr. Trump?

Well, in many ways, it's as happy as it looks, although we know with the domestic U.S. media,

there'll be every attempt taken to denigrate whatever it is President Trump decides to do.

If he decides to lay flowers on the grave

of Mother Teresa, he'll be criticized by someone. So the reality is it's a, in political terms,

it's benign, but in strategic terms, it's extremely important because it does give the, if you like, traditional

blessing on the Trump administration and on President Trump himself. So this is far more

important than the political day-to-day arrangements. And it was, look how much it did for

Sir Keir Stama, the Prime Minister, who is

despised by the majority of the electorate in Britain, according to the latest polls. But he was

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