News: The Trump administration is expected to announce this week that King Charles III will be in Washington next month for a state visit, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the planning.
There will be a state dinner for the king. It’s also widely expected on Capitol Hill that Charles will address a joint meeting of Congress when he’s in D.C.
The House will now be in session the last week of April, a change from the previously announced schedule.
The visit is in honor of the United States’ 250th birthday. President Donald Trump visited London in September. And Speaker Mike Johnson traveled there in January, where he became the first speaker to address the parliament.
The last time a British royal addressed Congress was May 1991, when Charles’ mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, spoke to a packed House chamber.
Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, addressed a joint session in 2009, the last British official to do so.
