The state visit is going to be a serious diplomatic challenge, at a time of unusually tense political relations between the US and the UK.
King Charles will be addressing the US Congress in a bid to revive the special relationship and to restore support for the US and UK partnership.
But there will also be lighter moments, such as this literally fluffy story, which will see Queen Camilla give the library a toy Roo, made by the same firm, Merrythought, that made the original toys in the 1920s.
Royal sources describe the gift as “royal soft (toy) power”.
The Queen’s visit to the library, and its Treasures collection, will also mark the centenary of the first Winnie-the-Pooh book being published.
AA Milne created the much-loved bedtime stories – which were later made into a Disney cartoon – based on the collection of stuffed toys belonging to his son, Christopher Robin Milne.
The toy animals already have a track record as transatlantic cultural ambassadors.
They had been in the Sussex home of author AA Milne, before touring the US in 1947, going on display in New York in 1956 and then becoming permanent residents at the library in 1987, after being donated by a US publisher.
That might make them the only Sussex UK to US migrants who are seen by the royals on their visit.
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