King Charles to address 'increasing pressures of conflict' in speech as Trump criticizes British PM on Iran

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King Charles III volition bespeak connected "the expanding pressures of conflict" crossed the satellite successful a "time of large challenge" during a code planned for Monday, according to aggregate reports.

"We articulation unneurotic connected this Commonwealth Day astatine a clip of large situation and large possibility," a preview of the 77-year-old’s Commonwealth Day code says.

The king's code continued: "Across our world, communities and nations look the expanding pressures of conflict, clime alteration and accelerated transformation. Yet it is often successful specified investigating moments that the enduring tone of the Commonwealth is astir intelligibly revealed."

The code volition travel a small much than a week aft the U.S. and Israel launched coordinated strikes against Iran, which British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the United Kingdom didn’t instrumentality portion successful for the involvement of their nationalist interest.

"This is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with," President Donald Trump said earlier this week successful a disapproval of Starmer amid a perceived deficiency of enactment for the U.S. and Israel’s associated subject cognition against Iran.

King Charles delivering his 2023 cCommonwealth Day address

King Charles III making his Commonwealth Day code successful 2023. (Hannah McKay - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

"By the way, I’m not blessed with the U.K. either," the president said, referring to Starmer blocking the United States’ usage of U.K. bases to motorboat attacks connected Iran.

Britain has since allowed the U.S. to usage its bases successful the portion for antiaircraft purposes against Iran’s retaliatory strikes. It has besides mobilized combatant jets and plans to nonstop a destroyer and perchance an craft carrier.

The president referenced the Chagos Islands Tuesday, which are British territories successful the Indian Ocean, saying it has taken "three, 4 days for america to enactment retired wherever we tin onshore there."

"It would person been overmuch much convenient landing determination arsenic opposed to flying galore other hours, truthful we are precise surprised," helium said.

Later, the president said the United Kingdom has been "very, precise uncooperative with that anserine island."

"It’s a shame," Trump said. "That country, the U.K., and I emotion that country, I emotion it."

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President Trump has criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer implicit the U.K.'s practice with the U.S. connected its subject enactment successful Iran. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

"This is not the property of Churchill," helium added.

Trump slammed Starmer again connected Saturday, accusing the premier curate of joining the warfare aft the U.S. had "already won."

"The United Kingdom, our erstwhile Great Ally, possibly the Greatest of them all, is yet giving superior thought to sending 2 craft carriers to the Middle East," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t request them immoderate longer – But we volition remember. We don’t request radical that articulation Wars aft we’ve already won!"

Starmer has defended his determination to enactment retired of the conflict, saying the U.K. was "not progressive successful the initial strikes against Iran, and we volition not articulation violative enactment now."

"But successful the look of Iran's barrage of missiles and ⁠drones, we volition support our radical successful the region," Starmer said successful an code Monday to Parliament. "President Trump has expressed his disagreement with our determination not to get progressive successful the initial strikes, but it is my work to justice what is successful Britain's nationalist interest. That is what I’ve done, and I basal by it."

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The king and different elder royals volition stitchery astatine Westminster Abbey connected Monday for the yearly Commonwealth Day celebration, which recognizes the 56 countries voluntarily connected to the U.K., galore of which were erstwhile portion of the British Empire.

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The preview of the code continues: "Working together, we tin guarantee that the Commonwealth continues to basal arsenic a unit for bully — grounded successful community, committed to the benignant of restorative sustainability that has a instrumentality connected investment, enriched by culture, steadfast successful its attraction for our planet, and agreed successful relationship and successful the work of its people."

Charles’ code astatine the abbey volition besides beryllium the largest gathering of the royal household since erstwhile Prince Andrew was arrested connected Feb. 19.

Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.