Hizzonner, meet His Highness!
Mayor Zohran Mamdani was all smiles as he met King Charles III at the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan on Wednesday during a rare royal visit to New York City.
The British monarch — who hasn’t been to New York in nearly 20 years —grinned back while shaking Mamdani’s hand and saying “thank you.”
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The political odd couple chatted pleasantly during the brief encounter while former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, chairman of the memorial, looked on, and members of the media were told to stand back, according to footage from Sky News.
It wasn’t immediately clear what the men discussed during the brief meeting, which lasted just minutes.
The king and his wife, Queen Camilla, were led into the memorial by Bloomberg and paid respects by laying a bouquet of white flowers near the memorial’s sprawling reflective pools, before pausing for a somber moment of silence.
The smartly dressed couple, who both sported navy outfits, then met family members of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Firefighters and police were seen surrounding the royals while dressed in uniform on the third day of their trip to the US.
Earlier in the day, Mamdani was asked by reporters at an unrelated press conference what he would say to Charles if he could talk to him.
“If I was to speak to the king… I would probably encourage him to return the Kohinoor diamond,” Mamdani quipped — referring to one of the worlds’ largest cut diamonds, which was taken from India and is now part of the British Crown Jewels.
The infamous 105-carat gem, which is on display at the Tower of London, was mined in India hundreds of years ago — and has a bloody history of violently changing hands among rulers.
Critics say it’s a “symbol of conquest” and a token of colonial violence and, legend has it, the diamond is “cursed.”
On Wednesday, Beth Hillman, President and CEO of the 9/11 memorial, called the royals’ visit a “tremendous honor.”
“9/11 was an attack on people around the world. It hit hardest here in New York City, but 67 citizens of the United Kingdom were killed on that day. People from 90 countries were killed along with all the Americans,” she told The Post.
“It’s an important way to demonstrate resilience, to demonstrate unity and to remind people of the ways we can come together, and that seems something that the Crown has worked to do.”
Charles hasn’t hopped across the pond since he toured the Big Apple with his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 2007.
At the time, he and Camilla visited the Promise Academy charter school in Harlem, watched students rehearse a school play and played basketball with a group of kids.
The last time Britain’s head of state took a trip to New York was in July 2010, when Queen Elizabeth visited Ground Zero to lay a wreath during a sweltering 103-degree heat wave.
The trip closely resembled the one her son made to the memorial roughly 16 years later — with Elizabeth joining then-Bloomberg and then-Gov. David Paterson. The then-queen also met the families of first responders who died during the terror attack.
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