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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lisa O'Carroll and Julian Borger

Biden brings forward Belfast visit, putting meeting with king in doubt

Charles and Joe Biden in Glasgow for the Cop26 climate summit in 2021
Charles (left) and Joe Biden in Glasgow for the Cop26 climate summit in 2021. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

Hopes that Joe Biden’s landmark trip to Belfast next month will be rounded off by a meeting with King Charles are fading after the US president brought forward by a week his trip to celebrate 25 years of peace.

It now appears likely the king and the president will stage back-to-back visits in an echo of historic visits to Dublin by Barack Obama and the queen in 2011.

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