King Charles’s Congress speech was (almost) perfect
President Trump lavished praise upon King Charles from the Oval Office at the outset of his four-day state visit to the United States. The US president called the monarch ‘a man of class’. ‘It’s great to have a king in here,’ he said. A conspicuous absence of ‘No Kings’ protests in the presence of a real king had not gone unnoticed. But it was Charles’s address to a joint session of Congress that was eagerly awaited on both sides of the Atlantic. This was a speech notable for its well-delivered gravity, rather than its jokes His most substantial public speech since he acceded the throne in September 2022, there was
