Trump greets King Charles at White House, hails U.S.-U.K. friendship

President Donald Trump speaks at a welcome for King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Tuesday at the White House. First lady Melania Trump is second from left. (Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post) President Donald Trump received King Charles III in a pomp-filled ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, as the British monarch visited the U.S. capital at the tensest moment in Anglo-American relations in generations. The king, who is on his first state visit to the United States since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died in 2022, is capitalizing on Trump's longtime fascination with the British royal family. Trump has attacked British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over his reluctance to join forces with Washington in the president's attack on Iran. But he has shown no such aggression to Charles, embracing the monarch and boasting about what he says is their close relationship.