{"id":2394958,"date":"2026-04-29T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2394958"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:01:19","slug":"mamdani-meets-king-charles-iii-at-9-11-museum-memorial-during-royal-nyc-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mamdani-meets-king-charles-iii-at-9-11-museum-memorial-during-royal-nyc-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani meets King Charles III at 9\/11 Museum &#038; Memorial during royal NYC visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hizzonner, meet His Highness!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The British monarch \u2014 who hasn\u2019t been to New York in nearly 20 years \u2014grinned back while shaking Mamdani\u2019s hand and saying \u201cthank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/27\/us-news\/nyc-ny-politics-live-updates-on-zohran-mamdani-governors-race-more-april-27-28-29-30\/\">Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>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\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/x.com\/I_amMukhtar\/status\/2049540047540568331__;!!F0Stn7g!GIc6YCkmuUeoYiY0T7Eg_BNPOlJRjHd0QWOhh8ERGQ6if7zVcYV_F18OnOUr8Dc3G10u_XVFaJQ07lUR3YjIe8QQ$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sky\u00a0News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the men discussed during the brief meeting, which lasted just minutes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The king and his wife, Queen Camilla,\u00a0were led into the memorial by Bloomberg and\u00a0paid respects\u00a0 by laying a bouquet of white flowers near the memorial\u2019s sprawling reflective pools, before pausing for a somber moment of silence.<\/p>\n<p>The smartly\u00a0dressed couple, who both sported navy outfits,\u00a0\u00a0then met family members of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mamdani is all smiles as he greets King Charles III. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Firefighters and police were seen surrounding the royals while dressed in uniform on\u00a0the third day of their trip to the US.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\t<iframe height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/28758103\/embed\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" class=\"flourish-embed-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was to speak to the king\u2026 I would probably encourage him to return the Kohinoor diamond,\u201d Mamdani quipped \u2014 referring to one of the worlds\u2019 largest cut diamonds, which was taken from India and is now part of the British Crown Jewels.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>The infamous 105-carat gem, which is\u00a0on\u00a0display at the Tower of London, was mined in India hundreds of years ago \u2014 and has a bloody history of violently changing hands among rulers.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say\u00a0it\u2019s a\u00a0\u201csymbol of conquest\u201d and a token of colonial violence\u00a0and, legend has it, the diamond is\u00a0\u00a0\u201ccursed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday,\u00a0Beth Hillman, President and CEO of the 9\/11 memorial, called the royals\u2019 visit a \u201ctremendous honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c9\/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,\u201d she told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charles hasn\u2019t hopped across the pond since he toured the Big Apple with his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 2007.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>This visit marks the first time in 20 years since the British monarch last touched down in New York City. <span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Britain\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The trip closely resembled the one her son made to the memorial roughly 16 years later \u2014 with\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2014 who hasn\u2019t been to New York in nearly 20 years \u2014grinned back while shaking Mamdani\u2019s hand and saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394959,"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":[467343,183049,25879,25614,22769,37798,369632],"class_list":["post-2394958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-9-11-memorial","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-metro","tag-new-york-city","tag-royal-family","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mamdani-meets-King-Charles-III-at-911-Museum-Memorial.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394958","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=2394958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394960,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394958\/revisions\/2394960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}