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华盛顿 —— 查尔斯三世国王和卡米拉王后将于周一抵达美国，这是他们作为君主的首次访美。此次访问正值美英关系紧张之际，同时也是为纪念《独立宣言》签署250周年。
目前尚不清楚，周六晚间白宫记者晚宴遭遇枪击未遂事件后，额外的安保考量会如何影响他们的行程。当晚的晚宴有总统、副总统及内阁成员出席。
英国王室在周日的一份声明中确认，此次访问“将按计划进行”，并补充道：“国王和王后对所有快速开展工作以确保行程顺利的人士深表感激，并期待访问正式启动。”
国王与特朗普正寻求在美伊战争以及特朗普总统嘲笑北约之际，强化并彰显两国之间的联系。而这些因素都有可能破坏二战以来这两个盟友珍视的“特殊关系”。
“此次访问将为我们提供一个契机，铭记两国共同的历史；回顾自此之后发展起来的广泛经济、安全与文化联系；以及维系着两国社区的深厚民间纽带，”王室声明说道。
查尔斯和卡米拉的访美行程将包含王室访问的常规安排：在白宫会晤、向国会发表演讲以及由总统主持的国宴。两人预计还将于周二前往纽约，悼念9·11袭击事件的遇难者，随后将到访弗吉尼亚州。
查尔斯国王的美国行程安排
国王与王后计划于周一下午抵达华盛顿。他们将与总统和第一夫人进行私人茶叙，并出席一场花园派对。
届时将举行正式欢迎仪式，包括仪仗队检阅。国王将与特朗普举行双边会谈，而王后则会与第一夫人单独会面。
国王将于周二在国会联席会议上发表演讲，当晚白宫将举办传统国宴。
战略与国际研究中心欧洲、俄罗斯与欧亚项目主任马克斯·伯格曼表示，他很期待国王在议员们面前的演讲内容。
“我预计演讲的规格会相当高，而且会带有一定的历史回顾色彩——承认美国源于对其母国的革命，而后我们又如何克服了这一隔阂，”伯格曼说道。
他补充道，关键问题在于国王是否会提及美英两国在二战后共同支持的人权与自由等议题，以及国王是否会以可能被视为批评本届政府的方式强调这些原则。
访美时机的紧张性
伯格曼表示，许多英国民众和其他欧洲民众一样，对特朗普处理总统任期的方式持批评态度，英国民众不希望本国领导人成为“恳求者”。尽管伯格曼称，他的“基本判断是，这将是一场侧重于两国历史联系的、令人愉悦的访问”，但查尔斯的角色十分微妙。
“他手中握着一根细线，必须在极其精细的针眼中穿引过去，”伯格曼说道。
特朗普总统与英国国王查尔斯三世于2025年9月17日在温莎城堡，当时特朗普总统第二次对英国进行国事访问。亚伦·乔恩/泳池/法新社/盖蒂图片社
特朗普一直严厉批评英国首相基尔·斯塔默不愿加入美以战争行动或为霍尔木兹海峡护航，尽管英国已允许美国使用其军事基地开展防御行动。特朗普还嘲笑英国的航空母舰是“玩具”。
特朗普本周在接受BBC电话采访时表示，只有当斯塔默改变他认为过于宽松的移民政策时，他与斯塔默的关系才会“恢复”。
特朗普对北约表达了广泛不满，因为该联盟拒绝加入始于2月28日美以空袭的对伊朗行动。特朗普甚至提出了退出北约的可能性，而美英均为北约创始成员国。
外交关系委员会欧洲问题高级研究员莉安娜·菲克斯表示，自斯塔默被视为“特朗普耳语者”的早期阶段以来，美英关系“已显著恶化”。
“英国最初拒绝允许使用基地参与对伊朗战争，这不仅让华盛顿的特朗普支持者感到不满，也损害了与北约的关系，并削弱了人们对‘特殊关系’仅剩的信心，”她说道。
不过，伯格曼表示，查尔斯并非斯塔默，他扮演的角色更为庄重，且较少涉及政治。
大多数英国民众并不看好国王的此次访美。3月底的YouGov民调显示，49%的英国民众认为此次访问应该取消，而33%的人认为应该按计划进行。
《卫报》外交事务评论员西蒙·蒂兹代尔写道，国王应该在国会演讲中就特朗普问题直言不讳。在一篇题为《摒弃外交礼仪》的文章中，蒂兹代尔写道，他所谓的斯塔默的“绥靖政策”已经“可悲地失败了”。
“特朗普无疑会将查尔斯出席单独的白宫国宴解读为王室对他本人及其政策的认可，”蒂兹代尔写道。“正是这种令人难堪的总统宣传造势的可能性，导致英国大多数民众反对此次访问。相比之下，斯塔默则希望此次访问能让严重受损的‘特殊关系’重回正轨。”
查尔斯与特朗普的关系
查尔斯的母亲伊丽莎白二世女王在特朗普首届任期内擅长与其保持和平，凭借数十年王位生涯练就的外交技巧周旋。伯格曼表示，查尔斯在外交领域也积累了丰富经验。
尽管这是他作为国王的首次访美，但这绝非两人的首次会面。特朗普曾称查尔斯是“朋友”。
特朗普本周告诉BBC，他认为国王的访问有助于修复美英关系。
“当然可以，”总统说道。“他很棒。他是个了不起的人。答案绝对是肯定的。”
“我很了解他，我们相识多年，”特朗普告诉BBC。“他是个勇敢的人，也是个伟大的人。这次访问绝对会带来积极成果。”
目前尚不清楚两人首次见面的确切时间，但那是在20多年前，当时特朗普还是纽约社交界的商人。照片显示，梅拉尼娅和唐纳德·特朗普2005年在纽约现代艺术博物馆的一场活动中与查尔斯交谈。
在这张2005年11月1日的照片中，时任查尔斯王子与特朗普夫妇在纽约市现代艺术博物馆的招待会上交谈。克里斯·杰克逊/盖蒂图片社/马克·拉奇
更正式的会面是在2019年，当时查尔斯还是威尔士亲王，总统和第一夫人在英国会见了他。特朗普夫妇又于2025年9月再次访英，出席了国王和王后在温莎城堡举办的盛大国宴。
在国王的弟弟安德鲁因爱泼斯坦文件曝光的相关公职不当行为嫌疑被捕后，特朗普表达了对国王的同情。此前，国王已因安德鲁与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦和吉斯莱恩·马克斯韦尔的关系剥夺了他的王室头衔。特朗普称安德鲁的事件是“一件非常令人难过的事情”。
查尔斯上一次正式访问华盛顿是在2015年，当时他仍是王子，与卡米拉会见了奥巴马夫妇。
King Charles arriving for visit with Trump to highlight nations’ “special relationship.” Here’s what to know.
April 27, 2026 / 6:51 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — King Charles III and Queen Camilla are arriving in the U.S. on Monday for their first visit as monarchs. The trip, marking the 250th anniversary of signing of the Declaration of Independence, comes at a fraught time for the U.S.-U.K. relationship.
It’s not clear how their plans may be affected by additional security considerations after Saturday night’s attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner where the president, vice president and Cabinet members were in attendance.
In a statement Sunday, the palace confirmed that the visit “will proceed as planned,” adding, “The King and Queen are most grateful to all those who have worked at pace to ensure this remains the case and are looking forward to the Visit getting underway.”
The king and Mr. Trump are seeking to strengthen and signify their countries’ ties at a time when the U.S. war with Iran and the president’s derision of NATO threaten to undermine the “special relationship” the two allies have treasured since World War II.
“The visit will be an opportunity to recognise the shared history of our two nations; the breadth of the economic, security and cultural relationship that has developed since then; and the deep people-to-people connections which unite communities,” the palace said.
Charles and Camilla’s visit will feature the usual trappings of visiting royalty: meetings at the White House, an address to Congress and a state dinner hosted by the president. The two are also expected to head to New York on Tuesday to honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks, and then make a stop in Virginia.
King Charles’ schedule in the U.S.
The king and queen are scheduled to arrive in Washington on Monday afternoon. They’ll have a private tea with the president and first lady, as well as a garden party.
They will be welcomed with a formal ceremony featuring a ceremonial military review. The king and Mr. Trump will hold a bilateral meeting, while the queen and first lady have their own meeting.
The king will address a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, and then a traditional state dinner takes place that evening at the White House.
Max Bergmann, director of the Europe, Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he will be curious to hear what the king says in his address to lawmakers.
“I expect the speech to be at a rather high-level and my expectation is that it will be somewhat historical — acknowledging the United States came from a revolution against his country, but then how we’ve sort of overcome that,” Bergmann said.
The question will be, he added, whether the king hints at issues like human rights and freedoms that the U.S. and U.K. supported together after World War II, and whether the king leans into those principles in a way that might be seen as critical of the current administration.
The tense timing of the visit
Many Britons, like other Europeans, have been critical of the way Mr. Trump is handling his presidency, and the British public don’t want their leaders to be “supplicants,” said Bergmann. While Bergmann said his “baseline sense is this is going to be kind of a feel-good trip” focused on the historical ties of the two nations, Charles has a delicate role to play.
“He’s got some fine thread and he has to thread it through a very very fine needle,” Bergmann said.
President Trump and Britain’s King Charles III during the president’s second state visit to the U.K., at Windsor Castle, on Sept. 17, 2025. AARON CHOWN/POOL/AFP/Getty
Mr. Trump has been highly critical of U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s reluctance to join the U.S.-Israeli war effort or fight for the Strait of Hormuz, even as the U.K. has allowed the U.S. to use its bases for defensive operations. The president has also mocked the U.K.’s aircraft carriers as “toys.”
Mr. Trump told the BBC in a phone interview this week that his relationship with Starmer will only “recover” if Starmer reverses course on what Mr. Trump views as lax immigration policy.
Mr. Trump has expressed widespread frustration with NATO for the alliance’s refusal to join in the effort against Iran, which began with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28. Mr. Trump has even raised the possibility of leaving NATO, of which the U.S. and U.K. are founding members.
Liana Fix, senior fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the U.S.-U.K. relationship “has significantly deteriorated since the early days when Starmer was considered a ‘Trump whisperer.’
“The U.K.’s initial reluctance to allow the use of bases for the Iran war has strained not only Trumpists in D.C. but also the relationship with NATO, and undermined what was left of the belief in a special relationship,” she said.
Still, Charles is not Starmer, and has a more stately and less political role to play, Bergmann said.
Most Britons aren’t viewing the king’s trip favorably. A YouGov survey in late March found that 49% of the British public said the visit should be canceled, compared with 33% who said it should go ahead.
Simon Tisdall, a foreign affairs commentator for The Guardian, wrote that the king should speak plainly about Mr. Trump in his address to Congress. In a piece titled, “Protocol be damned,” Tisdall wrote that what he called Starmer’s “appeasement policy” has “miserably failed.”
“Trump will undoubtedly portray Charles’s attendance at a separate White House state banquet as a royal endorsement of his person and policies,” Tisdall wrote. “And it is precisely this galling prospect of a presidential propaganda coup that has led most people in Britain to oppose the visit. Starmer, in contrast, hopes it will set the badly soiled ‘special relationship’ back on track.”
The relationship between Charles and Trump
Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was adept at keeping peace with Mr. Trump during his first term, using her diplomatic skills honed through decades on the throne. Charles has also had plenty of practice in the area of diplomacy, Bergmann said.
Though this is his first visit as king, it will be far from the first meeting for the two. Mr. Trump has called Charles a “friend.”
Mr. Trump told the BBC this week he thinks the king’s visit could help repair U.S.-U.K. relations.
“Absolutely,” the president said. “He’s fantastic. He’s a fantastic man. Absolutely the answer is yes.”
“I know him well, I’ve known him for years,” Mr. Trump told the BBC. “He’s a brave man, and he’s a great man. They would absolutely be a positive.”
It’s not clear exactly when they first met, but it was more than two decades ago, when Mr. Trump was a businessman in New York society. Photos show Melania and Donald Trump chatting with Charles at an event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 2005.
In this photo from Nov. 1, 2005, then-Prince Charles chats with the Trumps at a reception at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Chris Jackson / Getty Images / MARK LARGE
More formally, the president and first lady visited with him in the U.K. in 2019, when Charles was still the Prince of Wales. The Trumps visited again in September 2025, attending an elaborate state dinner hosted by the king and queen at Windsor Castle.
Mr. Trump expressed his sympathy for the king after the king’s brother, Andrew, was arrested on suspicion of public misconduct in office related to revelations from the Epstein files. The king had already stripped Andrew of his royal titles due to his connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Mr. Trump called the situation with Andrew a “very sad thing.”
Charles’ last official visit to Washington was in 2015, while he was still prince, when he and Camilla met with the Obamas.