I'm John Betts with my good friend and colleague Gregory Copley, who teaches me monarchy, especially constitutional monarchy in his new book, Noble State.

The monarch himself is coming to America at the end of this month.

King Charles will address a joint session of Congress, but his job is this.

Can he knit together the special relationship, or at least a show of it between the Prime Minister

Kier-Starmer, who has his troubles at home and low poll numbers, and the President of the

United States, who has his troubles at home and has low poll numbers? Can the king do the job, Gregory?

He can to a certain degree, but that's becoming more difficult by the day as the political

and strategic rift between the United States and its allies, and particularly Britain,

and get worse and worse, and much of that to do with the collapse of NATO, which was going to

happen with or without him.

And it also reflects the rising tensions over Iran.

For President Trump, the visit by the King will be very positive.

It will show that the alliance still exists, that the United Kingdom and the United States can talk together after 250 years of U.S. independence from the UK.

The king could not have avoided this trip because it would have been churlish for the United Kingdom not to help the United States

celebrate this great achievement of 250 years of independence.

But the king is under a lot of attack for doing the trip because it's because it's seen as

rewarding President Trump instead of rewarding the United States and its people.

And there's going to be the opportunity, I think, for the King and the President to have private discussions,

during which time I think the King will definitely offer some cautious and very carefully worded ideas about how to improve

this relationship and how to tone down the political level animosity between the US government

and the UK government of Secere Stama.

So that's going to be positive. This may be one of the last

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