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As the world stares in disbelief at US President Donald Trump’s<\/a> behaviour over Venezuela and Greenland, King Charles’s<\/a> advisors must be reaching for their paracetamol. In April, he and Queen Camilla<\/a> are expected to jet to Trump’s side<\/a> to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary of independence.\u00a0<\/p>\n But by the time King Charles boards the plane, President Trump may have quit NATO<\/a> to force the annexation of Greenland<\/a> … or even sent in his troops to take it by force. It leaves King Charles in a terrible quandary and one which will have echoes of past royal blundering that history has already damned.<\/p>\n First of all let me be clear, I’m not equating Trump with Adolf Hitler – but the image of the craven Duke of Windsor’s 1937 visit to Nazi Germany where he met Hitler and gave Nazi salutes stained the Royal Family for decades.<\/p>\n A royal visit is viewed as a ‘rubber stamp’, and members of the Royal Family are already wary of pulling any levers for the capricious president.<\/p>\n Imagine if King Charles jetted to Moscow next week and shared a vodka or two with Vladimir Putin<\/a> in the Kremlin?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The world would erupt in righteous rage as Russia<\/a> has invaded a sovereign country and slaughtered innocent civilians with their endless barrage of rockets.<\/p>\n Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and – although geographically part of North America – it’s been politically and culturally linked to Denmark, for over 300 years.<\/p>\n Its head of state is King Frederik X of Denmark (a distant relative of King Charles) and the Danes are responsible for Greenland’s defence and foreign policy.<\/p>\n Even if Denmark wanted to, they could not just ‘give it away’ like a free haircut.<\/p>\n Greenlanders in fact want more independence … the last thing they want is to be the US’s 51st state.<\/p>\n Putin has already praised Trump’s threats to put infantry troops on the ground in Greenland, saying it is clearly part of North America and should be the US’s – as it supports his invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Listen to what the Russian government’s own newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta says of Trump flexing his muscles in front of his bewildered NATO allies: “If Trump annexes Greenland by July 4, 2026, when America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he will go down in history as a figure who asserted the greatness of the United States.<\/p>\n “With Greenland, the US becomes the second largest country in the world after Russia, surpassing Canada in area.<\/p>\n “For Americans, that’s on par with such planetary events as the abolition of slavery by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 or the territorial conquests of the Napoleonic Wars.<\/p>\n “If, thanks to Trump, Greenland becomes part of America\u2026 for sure the American people will not forget such an achievement.”<\/p>\n Putin is LOVING the discord among once rock-solid allies, a discord Trump is hell-bent on sowing. He’s doing Putin’s work for him. It’s all very odd.<\/p>\n So if Trump accelerates his ‘Greenland grab’, and then King Charles jets over and poses by his side – the UK is slap bang in Trump’s camp and will be seen to have betrayed NATO and one of its founding members, Denmark.<\/p>\n