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King Charles III arrived successful Canada connected Monday for a symbolic sojourn showing enactment for the country, which recognizes him arsenic its sovereign, amid U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to get the North American federation arsenic the 51st U.S. state.
Charles and his woman Queen Camilla landed astatine Ottawa Airport successful Ontario, wherever the king met connected the tarmac with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Governor General Mary Simon, the king's typical successful Canada. The king aboriginal held abstracted meetings with Carney and Simon.
Charles, 76, has kept a constricted docket portion undergoing crab treatment. His two-trip to Canada signals a beardown committedness to the country, which is 1 of 15 nations wherever helium is monarch.
This is Charles' archetypal sojourn to the erstwhile British colony since becoming king successful September 2022.
Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla get astatine Ottawa Airport successful Ontario, May 26, 2025. (Getty Images)
The king accepted an invitation from Carney to unfastened Parliament connected Tuesday – the archetypal clip a British monarch has carried retired the work since his mother, the precocious Queen Elizabeth, 68 years ago.
Carney invited Charles to Canada aft Trump repeatedly suggested helium wanted to annex the country, an thought fiercely rebuked by the premier minister, who secured an predetermination triumph past period successful portion owed to Canadians' disapproval of Trump's privation to marque the state portion of the U.S.
"The premier curate has made it wide that Canada is not for merchantability now, is not for merchantability ever," Canada's envoy to the U.K., Ralph Goodale, told reporters during a sojourn past week by Charles to Canada's precocious commission successful London.
Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla are greeted arsenic they get astatine Ottawa Airport successful Ontario, Canada, May 26, 2025. (Reuters)
"The king, arsenic caput of state, volition reenforce the powerfulness and the spot of that message," Goodale added.
Earlier this month, Carney told Trump that Canada is "not for sale" and "won't beryllium for sale, ever" during a gathering astatine the White House.
Charles has made subtle signals showing his enactment for Canada successful caller months by wearing Canadian medals, calling himself the king of Canada and describing the country's emblem arsenic "a awesome that ne'er fails to elicit a consciousness of pridefulness and admiration."
Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla get astatine Ottawa Airport, Canada, May 26, 2025. (Getty Images)
The king present indispensable execute a tricky balancing enactment arsenic British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is attempting to scope favorable outcomes with Trump implicit commercialized and the warfare successful Ukraine.
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When Starmer visited the White House successful February, helium delivered Trump an invitation from Charles for an unprecedented 2nd authorities sojourn for the U.S. president, who has repeatedly praised the royal family.
Carney, however, said that motion had upset Canadians.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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