{"id":2391080,"date":"2026-04-27T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2391080"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:29:12","slug":"kings-us-visit-sees-white-house-ring-of-steel-after-trump-assassination-attempt-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kings-us-visit-sees-white-house-ring-of-steel-after-trump-assassination-attempt-royal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"King’s US visit sees White House ring of steel after Trump assassination attempt | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A heavy security presence has been pictured in Washington DC, ahead of King Charles III’s State Visit to the United States<\/a>. It comes after an assassination attempt on President Trump<\/a> in the city yesterday. Britain’s ambassador has said \u201call appropriate security measures\u201d are in place. Sir Christopher Turner said security teams had been planning the trip for weeks before the incident at the White House Correspondents Association, and adjustments are possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Buckingham Palace has confirmed the visit will \u201cproceed as planned\u201d following talks on both sides of the Atlantic, and the receipt of advice from the Government. Sir Christopher said: \u201cThe real point is that our respective security teams have been in close touch for weeks, and any operational changes we have to make, we can make them as we go, and we are all very confident that all appropriate security measures are in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Security teams in the UK and US<\/a> worked through the night after the incident at the Washington Hilton hotel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Minor adjustments are to be made to one or two royal engagements during the trip, but the overall plan remains unchanged, it has been reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The King and Queen are understood to have reached out privately to Mr Trump and his wife, Melania, to express their sympathies with all those affected on the night, and their gratitude to the security services who prevented further injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The royal couple will arrive in Washington on Monday for the four-day visit, which will mark the 250th anniversary of American independence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Government also hopes that it will strengthen the “special relationship” between the UK and US, which has been under serious strain in recent months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Trump has branded the UK\u2019s approach to the Iran war \u201cterrible\u201d and repeatedly lashed out at Sir Keir \u2013 at one point describing him as \u201cnot Winston Churchill\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reports have suggested the US could review its position on the Falkland Islands in retaliation for Sir Keir\u2019s lack of support for the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When asked by the BBC<\/a> if the visit could help repair strained transatlantic relations, the President said: \u201cAbsolutely. He\u2019s fantastic. He\u2019s a fantastic man. Absolutely the answer is yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A heavy security presence has been pictured in Washington DC, ahead of King Charles III’s State Visit to the United States. It comes after an assassination attempt on President Trump in the city yesterday. Britain’s ambassador has said \u201call appropriate security measures\u201d are in place. Sir Christopher Turner said security teams had been planning the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2391081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22389,183049,466368,375326,450063,36639],"class_list":["post-2391080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-donald-trump","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-trump-assassination-attempt","tag-uk-us-relations","tag-us-state-visit","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kings-US-visit-sees-White-House-ring-of-steel-after.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391082,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391080\/revisions\/2391082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}