US visit is under heightened security after Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner
King Charles III and Queen Camilla were officially greeted with a state ceremony by President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on the second day of the historic state visit.
Standing at the podium and reflecting on the “special relationship”, he reflected on his Scottish mother, Mary Macleod Trump.
The monarchs shook hands with members of the US delegation, including JD Vance and Pete Hegseth, while Trump shook hands with Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and UK ambassador to the US Sir Christian Turner before the national anthems played.
It comes as the monarch is set to give a historic address to Congress, the second time a British monarch has done so after Queen Elizabeth II in 1991.
He is expected to say that while the UK and the US have not always agreed on everything, they have “always found ways to come together” amid strains to the “special relationship” from the Iran war.