{"id":673418,"date":"2026-07-04T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673418\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:56:09","slug":"king-charles-praises-us-uk-relationship-on-americas-250th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673418\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles praises US-UK relationship on America’s 250th"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Charles has highlighted the UK’s “relationship founded on friendship” with the US as the country celebrates 250 years since the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

The document, signed in 1776, established the United States of America’s independence from the colonial rule of Great Britain – its anniversary is celebrated on 4 July.<\/p>\n

In a message to President Donald Trump and the American citizens, external<\/a>, the King said that “through centuries of shared challenge and achievement” the two countries have built “trust and a belief in liberty, the rule of law and the dignity of all people”.<\/p>\n

He added that “as we look ahead to the next 250 years, I have no doubt we will continue to defend our shared values”.<\/p>\n

“The connection between our people is one that I trust will only grow stronger with time.”<\/p>\n

It comes as Trump is set to attend celebrations in Washington DC today, including flyovers by hundreds of aircraft and a fireworks display.<\/p>\n

The Fourth of July fireworks display is an annual tradition in Washington DC and Trump has promised that this year’s version – which is scheduled to begin after his remarks – would be the “largest fireworks show in history”.<\/p>\n

Festivities are also taking place in other parts of the US. <\/p>\n

The Times Square Ball in New York will drop eight times to signal midnight in every US time zone.<\/p>\n

In Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was signed in Independence Hall 250 years ago, there will be a celebration concert featuring stars including Christina Aguilera and Meek Mill.<\/p>\n

In May, the King and Queen Camilla visited the US<\/a> for the first British state visit to the country since Queen Elizabeth II’s visit in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles has highlighted the UK’s “relationship founded on friendship” with the US as the country celebrates 250…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-673418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673418","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=673418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}