King Charles heads to NY to honour terror victims after Trump bombshell | Royal | News
King Charles and Queen Camilla are heading to New York today for a day of appointments, hours after Donald Trump made bombshell comments about the war in Iran. The King and Queen will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed New York’s Twin Towers by laying flowers at one of the memorial pools.
The royal couple were officially welcomed to the US with all the pomp and pageantry at the White House on Tuesday, before attending a lavish state dinner hosted by the US President and his wife Melania. Mr Trump sparked controversy when he said at the state dinner that the King “agreed with him” that Iran should never be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
As head of state, the King is above party politics and remains neutral. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: “The King is naturally conscious of his Government’s long-standing and well-known position on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.”
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