Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been invited to join King Charles III in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Sept. 11 memorial in Lower Manhattan next week, the mayor\u2019s office confirmed on Friday. He does not plan to meet privately with the king.<\/p>\n
The ceremony, set to include other local officials and members of the British royal family, will kick off King Charles\u2019s visit to New York City on Wednesday, part of his four-day royal visit to the United States to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America\u2019s independence from Britain.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the mayor did not confirm whether he had accepted the invitation to the wreath-laying ceremony. King Charles is also expected to meet with families of Sept. 11 victims in honor of the 25th anniversary of the attacks.<\/p>\n
The mayor\u2019s possible joint appearance with King Charles would have some political dissonance.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mamdani is the city\u2019s first modern mayor to be wholly identified with democratic socialism, and he has sought to cast his mayoralty as one focused on the needs of the working class.<\/p>\n
He grew up with a father, Mahmood Mamdani<\/a>, whose work as an academic focused on \u201ccolonialism, anti-colonialism and decolonisation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The king was born in Buckingham Palace, and he is the leader of a monarchy that was at one point the world\u2019s largest colonial power.<\/p>\n Just last month, during remarks given on St. Patrick\u2019s Day, Mr. Mamdani praised Ireland\u2019s resistance to British rule.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we know, it was on Irish soil that the British Empire developed their colonial project,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cAnd yet when I think of the Irish, I do not think first of oppression; I think of resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n But the mayor has also shown a facility for finding common ground with leaders of starkly different political brands. Since he was elected mayor in November, Mr. Mamdani has twice held friendly meetings with President Trump<\/a>, whom he has repeatedly called \u201ca fascist<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n After King Charles visits the Sept. 11 memorial, he will head north to Harlem. There, he is scheduled to meet with an organization that offers after-school urban farming programs to children and young people affected by food insecurities before meeting with business and financial leaders.<\/p>\n King Charles is scheduled to return to Washington, D.C., later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Michael D. Shear and Liam Stack contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been invited to join King Charles III in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Sept.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73612,14415,83236,1445,1442,9,24,55,54,56,54333,1554,79268,1446],"class_list":{"0":"post-210415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-charles-iii","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-king-of-the-united-kingdom","11":"tag-mamdani","12":"tag-mayors","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-royal-families","19":"tag-united-states-international-relations","20":"tag-united-states-semiquincentennial-2026","21":"tag-zohran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}