The White House and Buckingham Palace: A special relationship

In beforehand of King Charles' upcoming sojourn to Washington, D.C., it's worthy looking backmost astatine the agelong narration betwixt the White House and Buckingham Palace. While American presidents and British royals are accelerated friends today, this was not ever the case.

King George III, of course, was the villain successful our communicative of the American Revolution, and helium was inactive successful the representation during the War of 1812, successful which British troops burned the White House to the ground.

In the mediate of the 19th century, Queen Victoria became a heroine to some, but a villainess to others, erstwhile she work the anti-slavery caller "Uncle Tom's Cabin" aloud to the royal family. Abolitionists whitethorn person liked this, but it was little favorably received successful the slaveholding South.

Things began to alteration successful the precocious 19th period owed to some technological and diplomatic advancements. The United States and Britain began to admit communal interests, and transatlantic question and connection became easier.

King Charles III (left) and US President Donald Trump (right) inspect the Guard of Honour during the authorities sojourn by the President of the United States of America astatine Windsor Castle connected Sept. 17, 2025, successful Windsor, England. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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By 1903, erstwhile erstwhile President Theodore Roosevelt broadcast the archetypal transatlantic connection implicit the radio, helium directed it to Britain's King Edward VII, saying:

"In taking vantage of the fantastic triumph of probe and ingenuity which has been achieved successful perfecting a strategy of wireless telegraphy, I widen connected behalf of the American radical astir cordial greetings and bully wishes to you and each the radical of the British Empire."

In the 1910s, the U.S. and Britain grew person arsenic allies against Germany successful World War I. In 1939, King George VI made the archetypal sojourn of a British royal to the White House, visiting erstwhile President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

President Donald Trump gestures adjacent to Britain's King Charles III earlier leaving Windsor Castle successful Windsor, England, connected Sept. 18, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)

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The U.S. inactive had a spot of an anti-royal spot connected its shoulder, though. Roosevelt famously served blistery dogs to the king and queen to amusement his transportation to the communal man.

Our nations became adjacent person arsenic a effect of our confederation successful some World War II and successful the consequent Cold War. Improvements successful transatlantic question meant that visits by presidents to London and royals to Washington became semiregular events.

In her 70-year reign from 1952 to 2022, Queen Elizabeth II met 13 of the 14 presidents who held bureau during that period. This included each sitting U.S. president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Joe Biden, with the sole objection of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Queen Elizabeth II and President Dwight D. Eisenhower basal extracurricular the White House successful Washington, D.C., successful October 1957. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images)

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Although the queen’s relation was present mostly ceremonial, sometimes determination was a diplomatic constituent to her visits arsenic well. When she visited Eisenhower successful 1957, she helped creaseless implicit tensions that had emerged betwixt Britain and the U.S. arsenic a effect of the Suez Crisis.

Sometimes determination was a larger, much nationalist constituent to her visits. In 1976, Queen Elizabeth spoke astatine the White House portion visiting erstwhile President Gerald Ford during U.S. bicentennial celebrations, possibly demonstrating that Britain had yet gotten implicit things from 1776.

In caller decades, astir each president has had immoderate enactment with the royal family: Prince Charles' wife, Lady Diana, famously danced with histrion John Travolta astatine a White House lawsuit during the Reagan medication successful 1985.

President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump airs with King Charles and Queen Camilla astatine Windsor Castle successful Windsor, England, connected Sept. 18, 2025, during the last time of Trump's 2nd UK authorities visit. (Aaron Chown/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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Queen Elizabeth besides granted erstwhile President Ronald Reagan an honorary knighthood successful 1989, aft helium near office. Former President George H.W. Bush had the queen connected his legendary 30,000-person Christmas paper list.

In December 2000, with the statesmanlike predetermination to find his successor inactive successful doubt, erstwhile President Bill Clinton had beverage with Queen Elizabeth astatine Buckingham Palace.

When I served successful the George W. Bush White House, I retrieve Karl Rove telling a precise comic communicative from his enactment astatine Buckingham Palace with Bush and forgetting a brace of socks. At an aboriginal greeting White House elder unit meeting, Rove did an uproarious imitation of a palace attendant presenting a caller brace of socks to the "Right Honourable Mr. Rove" connected a metallic tray.

Sometimes determination person been diplomatic snafus: erstwhile President Barack Obama got immoderate pushback for gifting the queen an iPod successful 2009. It turns retired that she already had one. Biden got amended grades for giving her a sterling metallic container from Tiffany & Co. with personalized engravings.

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And now, arsenic King Charles embarks connected his archetypal visit to the U.S. successful President Donald Trump's 2nd term, the U.S. and Britain are successful the midst of a disagreement implicit the warfare with Iran.

Charles is not a governmental ruler, but possibly his visit, similar his mother's successful 1957, tin creaseless implicit tensions and assistance support the peculiar narration America has agelong had with the United Kingdom.