{"id":548877,"date":"2026-04-24T20:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:29:11","slug":"why-u-k-lawmakers-have-called-for-king-charles-visit-to-the-u-s-to-be-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548877\/","title":{"rendered":"Why U.K. Lawmakers Have Called for King Charles\u2019 Visit to the U.S. to Be Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Evie Aspinall, director of the British Foreign Policy Group, tells TIME that \u201cgiven Trump has a kind of strong affinity for the royal family\u201d the visit represents \u201ca unique opportunity to strengthen the bilateral relationship at a moment where it is fracturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Trump echoed this sentiment when asked recently if the royal visit could help repair the historically strong relationship, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/04\/24\/trump-threatens-uk-with-big-tariff-iran-war-relationship-fractured\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">answering<\/a>: \u201cAbsolutely, the answer is yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">&#8220;I know him well, I&#8217;ve known him for years,&#8221; Trump said of the King. &#8220;He&#8217;s a brave man, and he&#8217;s a great man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The trip will also include a visit to New York where Charles is expected to attend a wreath laying at the 9\/11 memorial, as well as a stop in Virginia, where the royals are set to meet Appalachian and Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p>Why are some lawmakers concerned about King Charles&#8217; trip\u2014and what have they said?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Against the backdrop of the Iran war and Trump\u2019s continued criticism of the U.K., some lawmakers have argued the visit poses more risks than benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evie Aspinall, director of the British Foreign Policy Group, tells TIME that \u201cgiven Trump has a kind of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,595,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-548877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}