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Trump Delivers Remarks at the State Arrival Ceremony for King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Apr. 28, 2026

April 28, 2026 · The White House · 0:34:57

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What happened

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the state arrival ceremony on the White House South Lawn on April 28, 2026, with full honors and the national anthems of both countries. “What a beautiful British day this is,” the President began. “Your Majesties, members of the British delegation, friends, service members, and distinguished guests, welcome to the beautiful White House. Great honor to have you. Melania and I will never forget the spectacular honor your Majesties showed us during our extraordinary visit to Windsor Castle last September.”

His address traced the special relationship to before the founding: “Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed… The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance.” He pointed to the tree a few dozen feet away planted by the late Queen Elizabeth II — “It was a very young and beautiful tree, and look at it now. It’s tripled in size and tripled in strength, very much as our nations have” — and to his own mother, Mary MacLeod, born in Stornoway in the Hebrides, who “loved the royal family… Anytime the queen was involved in a ceremony or anything, my mother would be glued to the television.” He noted that the bust of Winston Churchill “rests proudly again in the Oval Office. We’re very proud to bring it back.”

Why it matters

The arrival ceremony opens the April 2026 British state visit in this chronicle — the first full state visit of America’s 250th year — and carries the President’s personal statement of the Anglo-American bond, from Runnymede to his mother’s Stornoway, on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub alongside the state dinner that evening.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump and the First Lady Participate in a Greeting with the King and Queen of the UK,” The White House, April 28, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All characterizations as stated by the President at the ceremony.