\u201cQueen Elizabeth’s speech sets the stage quite nicely, you could almost frame King Charles’ as a natural continuation of that,\u201d Evie Aspinall, director of the British Foreign Policy Group, tells TIME.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re seeing the U.S. and Europe fracturing, so to Charles, it’s an opportunity to try and bring everyone back together and re-cement the importance of U.S. and European ties.\u201d<\/p>\n
The core themes of Elizabeth\u2019s address remain relevant, she says, although the King is facing a tougher environment given the current state of play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you saw with the Queen’s speech was that it tried to move above the politics of the day. It talked about trends, values, and alignment, and I think Charles will want to do the same, but underneath it, he’s trying to reaffirm the importance of NATO, strengthen transatlantic alliance, and reopen channels of communication,\u201d Aspinall adds.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the all-important address, here\u2019s what else to know about the Queen\u2019s successful turn in front of Congress and how it might set the pace for Charles\u2019 own offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cQueen Elizabeth’s speech sets the stage quite nicely, you could almost frame King Charles’ as a natural continuation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,5296,63,122,124,123,486,5878],"class_list":["post-211111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-desk","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-royal-family","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211111","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=211111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}