{"id":213610,"date":"2026-04-29T03:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:24:40","slug":"what-the-king-and-queen-did-on-their-second-day-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213610\/","title":{"rendered":"What the King and Queen did on their second day in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">King Charles III and Queen Camilla continued their state visit in Washington DC on Tuesday, by meeting members of President Trump&#8217;s cabinet, before the King gave a speech to both houses of US Congress to celebrate America&#8217;s 250th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">They ended the day with a state dinner at the White House, where Trump praised the United Kingdom for the &#8216;richest inheritance one nation could give to another&#8217;, while Charles gifted the president a bell from his WW2 submarine namesake, &#8216;HMS Trump&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">It is the first such visit by the reigning monarch to the US since Queen Elizabeth II met President George W Bush in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The King and Queen will journey to New York City tomorrow, to participate in a memorial service for victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8jvl3x19v9\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the BBC&#8217;s analysis of Charles&#8217; speech to Congress here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles III and Queen Camilla continued their state visit in Washington DC on Tuesday, by meeting members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-213610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213610","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=213610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}