The photo of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy standing shoulder to shoulder with King Charles soon after Zelenskyy’s public fallout with Donald Trump in the White House peeved Trump so much that he does not feel the same about Britain. Trump was extended a state visit to Britain presented by UK PM Keir Starmer but after the bonhomie between the monarch and Zelenskyy, Trump feels less special about the invitation. According to a DailyMail report, the feelings have not been kept a secret as Trump allies conveyed Trump’s displeasure to the UK officials in America but they were told that no one directs the King.
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance fought with Zelenskyy on television as Vance accused Zelenskyy of not being grateful enough for all that te US has been doing to resolve the war. After Zelenskyy’s humiliation, many European leaders supported Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy’s meeting with King Charles was scheduled at the same time. And to ‘hurt’ Trump some more, outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau too met King Charles.
‘Things definitely went a bit cool in Washington after Sandringham’
Daily Mail reported that 10 Downing Street sources did not ‘recognize’ the claims that Trump was sulking over King Charles meeting Zelenskyy and Trudeau but citing a well-placed source, it reported: “Things definitely went a bit cool in Washington after Sandringham. We told them that the King makes his own decisions about who he meets.”
Sandringham is King Charles’s Norfolk home where Zelenskyy met the monarch.
No 10 sources, according to the report, denied any tension between the UK and the US following King Charles’ meeting with Zelenskyy and said the PM spoke to Trump on Monday and there has been positive engagement — Trump likes to call Starmer directly on his mobile phone.
King Charles’ message of unity in ‘uncertain times’
King Charles will deliver a message for Commonwealth Day on Monday. According to the extracts of the speech published Saturday, the king would deliver a message of unity. “In these uncertain times, where it is all too easy to believe that our differences are problems instead of a source of strength and an opportunity for learning, the Commonwealth’s remarkable collection of nations and peoples come together in the spirit of support and, crucially, friendship,” the message reads.
