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King Charles and Queen Camilla\u2019s U.S. state visit is off to a nice start with the royal couple treated to a lavish garden party on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Following a stop at the White House<\/a> for tea with Donald Trump<\/a> and Melania<\/a>, in which the first lady showed off her beehives, the Trumps accompanied the King and Queen to the British Ambassador\u2019s residence for quite the affair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The event followed a royal tradition first established at the residence in 1939 for King George VI<\/a>, Charles\u2019 grandfather, the father of the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In addition to the 3,000 sandwiches prepared for the event, guests were treated to a viewing of an America 250 time capsule, which is the twin of a capsules already buried in Trafalgar Square,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Charles and Camilla jointly made contributions, including a specially minted commemorative coin from the Royal Mint and a signed proclamation from the king.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The start of the state visit comes two days after a shootings in D.C., in which Trump was the target, but according to royal expert Pauline Maclaran, this wasn\u2019t going to stop the royals from carrying out their duties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The state visit had been in the works for months with Maclaran saying: \u201cI guess they are demonstrating the British \u2018stiff upper lip!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI think to back out at this stage would be very difficult and risk offence despite the recent shooting,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Maclaran, co-author of Royal Fever<\/em> and Professor at Royal Holloway, explains what the state visit means for the British Royal Family: \u201cI think it reinforces the Monarchy\u2019s determined nature and its unflappability when faced with adverse circumstances, the well-known quote \u2018keep calm and carry on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And while security has been heightened for safety issues, it won\u2019t damper the visit, according to the royal expert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI think the visit will still provide a public spectacle of grandeur even if heightened security and this is what engages many people.\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.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King Charles and Queen Camilla\u2019s U.S. state visit is off to a nice start with the royal couple treated to a lavish garden party on Monday. Following a stop at the White House for tea with Donald Trump and Melania, in which the first lady showed off her beehives, the Trumps accompanied the King and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2392931,"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":[29138,22389,183049,31122,49174,308491],"class_list":["post-2392930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-british-royal-family","tag-donald-trump","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-melania-trump","tag-queen-camilla","tag-washington-dc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/King-Charles-warned-of-very-difficult-risk-ahead-of-meeting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392930","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=2392930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392932,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392930\/revisions\/2392932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}U.S. has pulled out all the stops for state visit<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n