After a year of wrangling, the Scottish whisky industry has finally gotten what it wants — the elimination of tariffs on its sales to the United States. Makers of Scotch whisky have been losing millions of pounds a week since a 10 percent tariff was imposed on exports to the United States, according to the…
What does Britain’s royal couple bring to a potluck? On Thursday, King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived at a block party in Front Royal, Va., with coronation quiche (a spinach, broad bean and tarragon quiche created for the king), some Victoria sponge (known in country as the queen of cakes) and honey from the…
The reviews are in: The British press say King Charles III delivered a masterful diplomatic rebuke of President Trump this week, in an ever-so-polite royal way. “King delivers hard truths” read a headline in the Daily Mail, praising him for urging the United States to defend NATO and Ukraine. A journalist at The Sun called…
For many New Yorkers, popping from the Financial District midday to Harlem in the afternoon to an evening out in Midtown would be a lot. When you’re British royalty making your first trip to the United States as heads of state, it’s protocol. King Charles III and Queen Camilla capped their whirlwind trip to New…
King Charles III of Britain fed chickens in Harlem. His wife, Queen Camilla, visited with Winnie-the-Pooh at the New York Public Library. In the morning, the royal couple laid a bouquet at the Sept. 11 memorial, and by evening, they were hobnobbing with the city’s cultural and artistic elite at Rockefeller Center. After a day…
Hours before greeting King Charles III in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was asked about the royal visit during a news conference in the Bronx. The mayor quickly distanced himself, saying that he would be attending a ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum “alongside a number of other elected officials” and that…
King Charles III quoted Oscar Wilde, joking that the British have everything in common with America “except, of course, language.” President Trump said the morning’s gloomy rain reminded him of a “beautiful British day” and noted that his mother thought young Prince Charles was “so cute.” Both men waxed poetic about the bonds between their…
More than 100 guests were invited to the state dinner that President Trump hosted for King Charles III of Britain and Queen Camilla on Tuesday night, a list that included many allies and friends of Mr. Trump’s, top administration officials, six Supreme Court justices, Republican lawmakers, billionaires and other conservative figures. Here is the entire…
It wouldn’t be a royal visit without a garden party. That is how King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Monday evening began their weeklong celebration of the great alliance that emerged — eventually — from the American Revolution. The garden in question was the sloping lawn of the British Embassy residence, where 600 or…
King Charles III of Britain will acknowledge on Tuesday that his country has had its differences with the United States, but he plans to tell a joint session of Congress that the “two countries have always found ways to come together,” according to a preview of his remarks by Buckingham Palace. The king’s speech is…
