king charles speech to congress

King Charles III has delivered a speech to the US Congress heavy on sentiment about the "special relationship" between the two nations. He did not explicitly mention the many ways that relationship was fraying. But he did push the case for global cooperation and talk up the NATO alliance, which the Trump administration has been increasingly critical of. US President Donald Trump did not attend the king's speech due to protocol. But at an earlier welcome ceremony at the White House, he told the king he "would love to go" and would watch remotely. "I was thinking of going but they said, 'I don't