It's Monday, September 25, 2023.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Britain's King Charles III made his first date visit in recent days, and that visit was

to the nation of France.

And in the aftermath of the state visit by King Charles and Queen Camilla, both on the

British side and the French side of the English Channel, there's a sense that the state

visit was a huge success.

Now Americans find this kind of thing occasionally interesting, but as I'm speaking to you from

London, I want to point to some of the deeper implications of what's going on here.

Now for the one thing, you have the fact that Britain has a king.

I mean, that's an obvious distinction when you compare Britain with the United States

of America.

In the United States, we have no king.

We have no hereditary monarchy.

We are very proud of the fact that in our constitutional system of government, we have

three different branches of that government, the legislative, the judicial, and the executive.

At the top of the executive branch is the president of the United States, who is also the

commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and he's the chief executive of the nation.

He is not a king.

If we have or when we have a woman as president, she will not be a queen.

But there's something also interesting, and that is that the American president is both

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