Royal state visits are usually predictable. And, in my view, all a total waste of time and money. Every moment is perfectly choreographed; the tableaus meticulously set up for mass appeal. The crowds turn out, cheer, wave flags and go home. No surprises, no unseemly upsets.
King Charles’s state visit to the US is unlike any other. Coming just after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, it’s unpredictable and, possibly, unmanageable because Trump is both of those things.
Charles, we know, is testy and frightfully grand. And, according to one of his friends quoted in the Observer, he was “bouncing up and down” in fury this January after Trump suggested British troops had stayed away from the frontline in Afghanistan. He may find it hard to contain his temper for the next few days.
Furthermore, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s sordid sexual antics and Epstein’s malevolent ghost will haunt the two men. We know POTUS (President of the US) and the King are two exceedingly difficult men. The first is impulsive, tyrannical, and has a God complex; the second believes he was born to rule. I don’t think either of them really gets the complicated arc of US-UK history and contemporary relations.
This week’s encounters between them would make great theatre. So far, Trump has been almost reverential. As he was with Queen Camilla. He seems to be seeking royal validation. But for how long? He is playing us. The royal visit will help him regain popularity.
Will Charles, an impatient man, play along with the grotesque leader? Or bend to his will? The King’s subjects will see their nation reduced to being a colony of the US, paying homage. Indian maharajahs genuflected to our monarchs during the empire. To please their masters, they handed over lavish gifts and heaped praise on Queen Victoria and, later, her descendants. Now it is the turn of Great Britain to submit to the all-powerful USA.
The two different but vainglorious men embarrass their nations.
Charles and Camilla going over to flatter Trump exposes a lingering fantasy that the royals have some magical hold over US leaders, particularly Trump. And our government believes that this manifestation of soft power wins us big influence and respect. It is a delusion. Millions of Brits know that and feel humiliated.
There has already been burgeoning disillusionment with the monarchy in recent months, after a drip-feed of revelations around Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein finally culminated in his arrest. Public support for the monarchy has already fallen to a historic low, while the King has slimmed down the monarchy and the number of members entitled to the privy purse in an attempt to address this. The state visit is another mark against the Royal Family as they cavort with a man the British public detest. Continually going against public opinion could make things ugly for Charles and the future of the monarchy.
It is embarrassing for the US, too. This July, it will be 250 years since the US fought a war and liberated itself from the “mother country” and its mad King George III. And yet, the proud Republic fawns over Charles, a monarch reigning over his people without ever having to seek their consent.
The state visit is an expensive charade which embarrasses citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. What can we do? Our leaders play these games. We can sigh, fume, laugh or expose the farce. They will not heed us. They never do.
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