Happy Wednesday in New York City, where we’re finally getting an answer to the long-standing question: how does a king spend a day in the Big Apple?
King Charles and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, are in the U.S. this week to celebrate America’s upcoming 250th and perhaps smooth over diplomatic relations amid escalating tension in the Middle East. Today, the royals will visit New York City before returning to Washington tomorrow.
Once, a visit from the English monarchs would have been accompanied by a ticker-tape parade down Broadway. But those days have passed, and now, with a Democratic Socialist mayor born in a former protectorate of the British Empire, the king and queen are in for a much more low-key itinerary.
Charles and Camilla will kick off their day by attending a wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero in honor of the victims of 9/11. The royals will meet first responders and their families, and perhaps scrape together a couple of minutes of face time with the mayor.
“I will be attending the wreath-laying … to pay tribute to the more than 3,000 who were killed in the horrific terror attacks of Sept. 11,” Mamdani announced at an unrelated press conference on Monday. “And that will be the extent of my meeting with the king and with others who are present.”
Charles will follow the ceremony by attending a food insecurity event at an urban farming project in Harlem and meeting with business leaders in Manhattan, while Camilla visits the New York Public Library main branch in Manhattan to donate a “Roo” doll — the young kangaroo from Winnie-the-Pooh — to the library’s famous collection of the original stuffed animals that inspired A.A. Milne’s iconic characters. The monarchs will then reunite at a charity event in Rockefeller Center.
In other words, if you’re planning to travel anywhere near these locations, be prepared for traffic to be a royal pain in the arse.
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