King Charles III is planning a state visit to Washington DC next month. He is rumored to be staying at the White House, attending a state dinner and possibly addressing a joint meeting of Congress.

The last royal to address Congress was Charles’s mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II speaking to a full chamber in May 1991, during George H.W. Bush’s presidency, around three months after the end of Operation Desert Storm. Britain contributed more than 50,000 troops to Iraq during the Gulf War which was – and remains to this day – the largest deployment of British military personnel since World War Two.

(Pay no heed to Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman, who this morning tweeted that “King Charles II” was coming: the previous Charles has been dead for 341 years.)

Quite a few royals are expected in Washington this year for the 250th anniversary of the United States. The king and queen of the Netherlands are also set for an April visit – while Charles’s heir Prince William and his wife Kate are rumored to be coming in for the Independence Day celebrations. With so many royals in town on July 4, the holiday marking the birth of our republic might look more like an All Kings Day.

Will Charles praise Congress for defying his ancestor, King George III, and forming this new government? Should we expect No Kings protesters taking things a bit too literally? Perhaps tone-deaf jokes about giving ourselves back to England?

Trump’s ego might prove helpful in this regard. Given his track record with foreign leaders who come to visit, Trump always finds a way to show a monarch, prime........

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