{"id":2353297,"date":"2026-03-31T18:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2353297"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:50:24","slug":"king-charles-confirms-us-state-visit-amid-growing-european-tensions-over-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-charles-confirms-us-state-visit-amid-growing-european-tensions-over-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles confirms US state visit amid growing European tensions over Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The King and Queen Camilla will travel to the United States for a state visit with President Donald Trump amid mounting tension between Washington and Europe over the Iran war.<\/p>\n

It will be the first time in nearly 20 years that a monarch has paid a state visit to the United States, with the King expected to address Congress.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump confirmed the state visit, taking place between April 27 and 30, would also include a banquet dinner at the White House.<\/p>\n

“I look forward to spending time with the King, whom I greatly respect,” he wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

“It will be TERRIFIC!”<\/p>\n

But there have been widespread calls for King Charles to boycott the trip as the so-called “special relationship” between the US and the UK continued to fracture.<\/p>\n

Less than an hour before Buckingham Palace confirmed the visit, Mr Trump lashed out at Sir Keir Starmer’s UK, telling the country to “go and get their own oil” from the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself,” Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“The U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us.“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The state visit, which Buckingham Palace said was made on advice from the UK government, comes amid a backdrop of tensions\u00a0with other European countries too.<\/p>\n

Europe restricts airspace to US war planes<\/h2>\n

Mr Trump used his Truth Social post on Tuesday to criticise France for not letting planes carrying military supplies to Israel fly over French territory.<\/p>\n

Italy\u00a0has also denied permission for US military aircraft to land at its air base in Sicily, despite the country’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni having close ties with Mr Trump.<\/p>\n

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US president-elect Donald Trump and Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni were all smiles at Mar-a-Lago. (Supplied: Italian government via Reuters<\/span>)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Spain has also closed its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous refusal to allow the use of jointly operated military bases.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fear absolutely nothing,” Spain’s Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Spanish broadcaster TVE.<\/p>\n

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“How could a country possibly fear anything for upholding international law, world peace and the United Nations Charter?“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Before the state visit was confirmed, UK MP Dame Emily Thornberry, who chairs parliament’s powerful Foreign Affairs Committee, said it would be “safer to delay” the visit, while Sir Ed Davey, the leader of the minority opposition Liberal Democrats, questioned: “Why are we rewarding Donald Trump with a state visit from our King?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

A recent poll in the UK, carried out by YouGov, found nearly half of British citizens opposed the state visit to the US, with only a third saying it should go ahead.<\/p>\n

The Stop Trump Coalition said the UK was paying “the price for Trump’s war” and the visit should be called off.<\/p>\n

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“As the cost of the war bites and Trump insults the UK daily, it is unacceptable that Starmer will continue his failed strategy of appeasing Trump by sending the King to wine and dine with the warmonger-in-chief,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

the group’s spokesperson Jane Atkinson said.<\/span><\/div>\n

“If the government really wants to show that it wants an end to Trump’s illegal war, then it should cancel the King’s visit and follow Spain’s example.”<\/p>\n

But Washington’s envoy to Britain, Warren Stephens, warned last week it would be a “big mistake” for the US visit to be cancelled.<\/p>\n

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Sir Keir Starmer gives Donald Trump an invitation from King Charles for a second state visit during a meeting in February. (Reuters: Carl Court\/Pool<\/span>)<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Can the King help ease tensions?<\/h2>\n

The so-called “special relationship” between the US and the UK has been cracking since Mr Trump visited the UK for a state visit last September.<\/p>\n

It was an unprecedented event as the US president became the first elected world leader to receive two state visits hosted by the British Royal Family.<\/p>\n