Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla began wrapping up their four-day state visit to the U.S. with a very quick stop by the White House to bid farewell to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, having already charmed him at a formal dinner two days prior, APA reports citing Reuters.
The official reason for the royal trip was to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. winning its independence from British colonial rule, cueing multiple wry jokes from Charles in speeches to Washington's elite about being on the losing side of the American Revolutionary War.
For his final day, Charles is expected to lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac River in Virginia, a sacred site for many Americans where tens of thousands of the country's war dead are buried. On Wednesday the king and queen commemorated victims of the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attack on New York City, laying a floral bouquet at the memorial where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood.
The royal couple are also expected to attend a small-town block party in Virginia to join in what the British embassy called the apparently exotic "North American tradition" of "a 'potluck' meal."
Later in the day, the royal couple will fly to Bermuda for Charles' first visit as sovereign to the British territory that, unlike the U.S., has not obtained independence.
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