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King Charles and Queen Camilla’s latest Instagram post, about their controversial upcoming visit to the United States (to celebrate the country’s 250th year of being independent from Great Britain) has sparked a tonne of backlash – but fans have also decoded a hidden barbed message to President Trump within it.
In a new announcement shared on @theroyalfamily, the King and Queen announced future travel plans: “🇬🇧🇺🇸 On advice of His Majesty’s Government, and at the invitation of The President of the United States, The King and Queen will undertake a State Visit to the United States of America.
“Their Majesties’ programme will celebrate the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship between the UK and the US, marking the 250th anniversary of American Independence.”
It added that after, the King will take a solo trip to Bermuda “to undertake His Majesty’s first Royal Visit as Monarch to a British Overseas Territory”.
In response, fans shared their disappointment with the King and Queen, in light of President Trump’s recent disrespectful comments about the UK not following the US and Israel’s lead by joining in the ongoing invasion of Iran.
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Earlier this year, Trump also made vile comments about British troops who served alongside American soldiers in Afghanistan, a war started after the US chose to invade and try to oust the Taliban, claiming the US “never needed them, we have never really asked anything of them…
“They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan… and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”
A total of 457 UK armed forces personnel died while serving in Afghanistan.
One comment under the royal post, amassing 5,000 likes in support, said: “Sad and disappointed – they should proceed directly to Bermuda, via Canada if necessary. Trump deserves the clarity of a cancelled Royal Visit.”
Another added, “[This was] posted less than an hour after Trump said the US ‘won’t be there’ for the UK any more.”
While a third pointed out the deliberate choice of wording from the King, which seems to suggest the US visit is taking place at Sir Keir Starmer’s government’s request, perhaps in an effort to smooth tensions between the two countries: “‘ON ADVICE OF…’ Good choice of wording. Translated to… ‘We were told to go, but we’d rather not’. And who could blame them. The 🇺🇸 is a mess.”
In a press conference earlier today, Starmer said he has faced “a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the [Iran] war, and I’m not going to change my position on the war.
“Whatever the pressure, whatever the noise, I am the British prime minister and I have to act in our national interests.”
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