King Charles to meet woke NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani at wreath laying memorial for 9/11 victims during royal state visit
King Charles will meet New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a wreath-laying ceremony for the victims of September 11 during his official visit to the United States next week.
The 77-year-old monarch, along with Queen Camilla, will remember nearly 3,000 people who died at a stunning memorial ceremony in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday.
He is also expected to meet with the families of the victims in honor of the 25th anniversary of the attacks, with the participation of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other local officials.
But insiders have revealed there will be no private meeting between Mamdani and the King during a tour that marks 250 years since America’s independence from Britain.
Mamdani is New York’s first modern mayor to embrace democratic socialism and has been described as “woke” for his left-leaning views.
His father, academic Mahmood Mamdani, largely focused his work on anti-colonialism and decolonization.
Last month, during St Patrick’s Day celebrations, Mr Mamdani praised Ireland’s ‘resistance’ to British rule.
‘As we know, the British Empire developed its colonial project on Irish soil,’ the mayor said. ‘Yet when I think of the Irish I don’t first think of oppression; ‘I’m thinking of resistance.’
King Charles will meet New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a wreath-laying ceremony for the victims of September 11 during his state visit to the United States next week
Mamdani identifies with democratic socialism and praises Ireland for its ‘resistance’ to Britain
On the upcoming visit, Mamdani spokesman Joe Calvello said: Policy: ‘The mayor will not meet privately with King Charles.
‘He has been invited to join several elected officials from New York at a wreath-laying ceremony at the 9/11 memorial next week, along with members of the British royal family.’
Details of the King’s visit have emerged as political turmoil unfolds in the Falklands.
King Charles and Queen Camilla will arrive in Washington DC on Monday, ahead of a banquet dinner at the White House the following day.
There have been calls from the Left for the trip to be canceled after US President Donald Trump repeatedly mocked and belittled Sir Keir Starmer for not supporting his military campaign in the Middle East.
Concerns rose further last night after the US threatened to back Argentina’s claim to the South Atlantic islands.
A leaked email from the Pentagon has revealed that Trump is considering withdrawing his support for Britain’s sovereignty over British territory.
It is one of a series of controversial measures designed to ‘punish’ Western allies he sees as doing too little to support his war with Iran.
The email sparked outrage from British veterans, politicians and the Falklanders, where 99.8 per cent of the population voted to remain a UK Overseas Territory.
While Keir Starmer vowed on Friday that British sovereignty ‘will not change’, SAS hero Robin Horsfall said ministers should treat President Trump ‘with the disdain and disdain he deserves’.
But Downing Street could not say whether the UK still had the capacity to defend the archipelago, given the Navy’s dire situation.
When asked twice, Sir Keir’s spokesman said it was a ‘hypothetical’ issue.
There are concerns that Argentina’s far-right leader and Trump ally Javier Milei may be emboldened by a change in US policy. Just this week he said he was doing “everything humanly possible” to protect the islands.
Argentine foreign minister Pablo Quirno also said that the country wanted to ‘continue bilateral negotiations with Britain’ in order to ‘put an end to their special and specific colonial situation’.
A leaked memo as Charles was preparing for his voyage suggests the US was threatening to back Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands. Picture: The King with President Trump last September
British troops in the Falkland Islands during the war with Argentina in 1982. Downing Street could not say whether the UK still had the capacity to defend the archipelago, given the Navy’s dire situation. When asked twice, Sir Keir’s spokesman said it was a ‘hypothetical’ matter
He added: ‘By history, by right and by faith: Malvinas [Falkland Islands] ‘We are from Argentina.’
There is currently only four Typhoon fighter aircraft on the islands, along with HMS Medway, a Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol ship, and 1,200 to 1,500 military and civilian personnel at RAF Mount Pleasant.
It took a force of 26,000 men, two aircraft carriers, attack ships, destroyers, frigates, submarines, and dozens of fighter planes and bombers to liberate the islands after the invasion of Buenos Aires in 1982.
