King Charles visits New York after Trump says UK monarch ‘agrees with me’ on Iran – US politics live

US president said UK monarch agreed Tehran should not be allowed nuclear weapons

In his state dinner speech King Charles appeared to suggest to president Trump that the purpose of his state visit was to “put the ‘special’ back into our relationship” – just as Queen Elizabeth II did almost 70 years ago.

Charles spoke about the ties between Britain and the US, and implied it mirrored events in the aftermath of the 1956 Suez crisis, when Elizabeth toured the US to help repair relations.

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