S8 Ep635: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY. King Charles III travels to Washington in late April to address a joint session of Congress. He seeks to use strategic diplomacy to mitigate growing tensions between Donald Trump and Kier Starmer. (1)
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY. King Charles III travels to Washington in late April to address a joint session of Congress. He seeks to use strategic diplomacy to mitigate growing tensions between Donald Trump and Kier Starmer. (1)
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. I learned from Gregory Cople just back from Britain that the King's |
| 0:05.8 | calendar has changed in his visit to the United States at the 250th anniversary of the founding |
| 0:10.8 | of the Republic. Rather than July 4th, the King is due in late April and will address joint |
| 0:18.0 | session of Congress. And there is expectation that perhaps the king can mitigate |
| 0:23.5 | the extreme tension that's built up between the head of United States government and state, |
| 0:31.0 | that's Donald Trump, and the head of state of Great Britain, that's Kirstarmer. Gregory explains. |
| 0:36.2 | More of this tonight. King Charles is a third |
| 0:38.7 | report. Yes, it has. And by the way, the book is not about constitutional monarchy, but the lessons |
| 0:45.2 | which constitutional monarchies can offer to modern governance. And that's been particularly |
| 0:50.8 | evidence since King Charles came to the throne in Britain, in that he's been |
| 0:56.2 | able to undertake complex diplomacy at a strategic level without getting into political differences. |
| 1:05.2 | And inevitably, there was going to be a political difference between the nationalistic politics of President Donald Trump |
| 1:12.9 | and the globalist, utopianist socialism of Prime Minister Kirstama in the United Kingdom |
| 1:20.4 | with his Labour government. |
| 1:23.1 | So the United States and Britain have been at odds for the last couple of years, or 18 months |
| 1:29.8 | or so, in particular, and King Charles was going to help to resolve that, and President Trump |
| 1:37.5 | was anxious that he'd do so. Initially, President Trump was going to have him in Washington for the July 4th celebrations. |
| 1:47.7 | That's now been changed in the last couple of days. |
| 1:50.8 | The King and Queen Camilla will go to Washington, but in late April, in other words, next month to Washington. |
| 2:00.0 | They'll spend several days there, and on April 27 in other words, next month to Washington, they'll spend several days there, |
| 2:02.2 | and on April 27th, they are apparently scheduled to, |
| 2:07.1 | or the King is scheduled, to address a joint session of Congress, |
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