2026-04-28T16:46:23-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：弗兰克·安德鲁斯
弗兰克·安德鲁斯是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻伦敦记者。
英国驻美国大使克里斯蒂安·特纳爵士于今年2月，也就是美英与以色列联合对伊朗发动打击之前表示，在他看来，与美国存在“特殊关系”的“唯一国家”“大概率是以色列”。
特纳是在与一批访美的英国高中生交谈时发表上述言论的。《金融时报》获取了相关谈话录音，并于周二对该消息进行了报道。
特纳还对学生们表示，已故性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关丑闻“扳倒了英国王室高级成员安德鲁·蒙巴顿-温莎、英国驻华盛顿大使彼得·曼德尔森，甚至可能波及首相基尔·斯塔默，但在美国这边，此事却完全没有波及任何人”，他认为这“非同寻常”。
据《金融时报》报道，特纳称他不喜欢用由温斯顿·丘吉尔首相在二战后提出的“特殊关系”一词来形容英美纽带，称该说法“十分怀旧”且“着眼过去”。
“我认为大概只有一个国家与美国存在特殊关系，”他说道，“那大概率就是以色列。”
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻尚未核实该谈话录音，但英国政府并未否认言论的真实性。
英国外交、联邦和发展办公室在发给哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的一份声明中表示，特纳的言论是“2月初与一批访英的英国六年级学生交谈时发表的私人非正式言论，绝对不代表英国政府的立场”。
特纳还对学生们——这个年龄段的学生大多为16至17岁——指出，英美两国关系“极为牢固”，并称“我们之间有着深厚的历史渊源和情感纽带。尤其是在国防和安全领域，我们彼此深度绑定”。
这些私人言论被公开之际，正值国王查尔斯三世和卡米拉王后对美国进行正式国事访问。美国总统特朗普在白宫迎接了英国王室一行，随后国王将对美国国会联席会议发表演讲。
此前特朗普多次抨击首相基尔·斯塔默，指责其未能支持对伊朗的军事行动，外界普遍认为此次王室出访是英国政府为缓和跨大西洋关系所做的努力。
斯塔默还因任命特纳的前任彼得·曼德尔森出任大使一职，遭到国内政治对手要求其辞职的呼声。曼德尔森是爱泼斯坦的好友。
在华盛顿方面披露的臭名昭著的文件中详细披露了曼德尔森与爱泼斯坦深厚的友谊后，斯塔默于今年9月将曼德尔森——自20世纪90年代以来就是斯塔默所在工党核心成员——从大使任上解职。
特朗普上周就此事件表态，预测斯塔默能够从这场丑闻中恢复过来。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/king-charles-iii-addresses-joint-meeting-congress/
U.K. ambassador, in leaked remarks, said the “one country” with a “special relationship” with the U.S. is “probably Israel”
2026-04-28T16:46:23-0400 / CBS News
By Frank Andrews
Frank Andrews is a CBS News journalist based in London.
Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S., Sir Christian Turner, said in February, before the U.S. and Israel launched their joint war with Iran, that to him it seemed the “only country” to have a “special relationship” with the United States was “probably Israel.”
Turner made the remarks to a group of British high-school age students visiting the U.S. A recording of the comments was obtained by the Financial Times and reported by the newspaper on Tuesday.
Turner also told the students he considered it “extraordinary” that the scandal over the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had “brought down a senior member of the royal family Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, a British ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson, potentially the prime minister Keir Starmer, and yet here in the U.S., it really hasn’t touched anybody.”
Turner said that he didn’t like the term “special relationship,” coined by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the wake of World War II, to describe the U.S.-U.K. bond, calling it “quite nostalgic” and “backwards-looking,” according to the FT.
“I think there is probably one country that has a special relationship with the United States,” he said, “and that is probably Israel.”
CBS News has not reviewed the audio of his remarks, but the British government has not denied their authenticity.
In a statement to CBS News, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said Turner’s remarks were “private, informal comments made to a group of U.K. sixth-form students visiting the U.S. in early February. They are certainly not any reflection of the UK Government’s position.”
Turner did tell the students, who would have been mostly 16 and 17 years old in that grade level, that U.K.-U.S. ties were “so strong,” citing “a deep history and affinity between us. Particularly on defense and security, we are intertwined.”
His private remarks were made public as King Charles III and Queen Camila paid a formal state visit to the U.S., being welcomed at the White House by President Trump ahead of an address by the monarch to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
The royal visit has been seen widely as a bid by the U.K. government to ease transatlantic ties, after Mr. Trump’s repeated bashing of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whom the American leader has accused of failing to support the Iran war effort.
Starmer has also been fighting domestic calls for his resignation by political opponents over his decision to appoint Turner’s predecessor, Peter Mandelson — a friend of Epstein’s — to the ambassadorship.
Starmer fired Mandelson — a mainstay of Starmer’s own Labour Party since the 1990s — from the ambassadorship in September, soon after details of the depth of his friendship with Epstein emerged in the infamous files released in Washington.
Mr. Trump weighed in on the matter last week, predicting that Starmer can recover from the scandal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/king-charles-iii-addresses-joint-meeting-congress/