S8 Ep608: 4. Gregory Copley Headline: British Political Turmoil and the Monarchy's Role King Charles III plans to attend America’s 250th anniversary despite potential diplomatic friction with President Trump. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces historic un
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
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4. Gregory Copley Headline: BritishPolitical Turmoil and the Monarchy's Role King Charles III plans to attend America’s 250th anniversary despite potential diplomatic friction with President Trump. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces historic unpopularity and internal party dissent, though he remains difficult to remove. (4)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, the author of a book |
| 0:20.6 | about the constitutional monarchy, and the reason I with Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, the author of a book about constitutional |
| 0:21.8 | monarchy. And the reason I come to it is that a headline in the London Times a couple of days |
| 0:29.0 | ago surprised the heck out of me. Lord Thornberry, one of the peers observing the status of the king, |
| 0:37.2 | suggested that the king should not attend the 250th anniversary of the peers observing the status of the king suggested that the king should not attend the 250th |
| 0:40.3 | anniversary of the United States's founding because of the risk of embarrassment. It wasn't filled |
| 0:46.2 | in by detail, but we can presume it had to do with the president's habit of spontaneously making |
| 0:52.5 | remarks that can be read as insulting and often are insulting. |
| 0:57.2 | The next day we had from the palace, however these things happened, they dropped the notes |
| 1:01.9 | out the window, I don't know, saying the king's going. Now, Gregory, I'm confused. Of course the |
| 1:07.6 | king's going. He's the king of Canada, is the king of New Zealand, it's the king of |
| 1:11.7 | Australia, and go anywhere he wants. He's invited to the United States. There'll be a great celebration. |
| 1:18.1 | Everybody will be in attendance. The king and queen are wonderful at these events, but I cannot |
| 1:25.0 | remove the anxiety about Donald Trump making remarks that would be embarrassing, |
| 1:30.8 | although I can't imagine what it is, given that Donald Trump's visit to the king, |
| 1:36.4 | I believe it was a formal state dinner at Windsor, went very happily. |
| 1:41.2 | So what is the concern in Britain? |
| 1:43.5 | You must have heard talk, lots of mumbling about |
| 1:46.2 | this. Absolutely. In fact, there was a lot of discussion there. And in fact, even the |
| 1:54.0 | leader of the opposition, Kemi Badenock, leader of the Conservative Party, came to the |
| 2:00.3 | defense of Sekea Stama |
| 2:02.2 | when Donald Trump, President Trump, issued another diatribe against Stama, |
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