Buckingham Palace has issued a rare public response after Donald Trump claimed in a new interview that King Charles III would have backed him on the Iran war, insisting the monarch is 'above politics' ahead of a high‑stakes US state visit later this month.
Trump, 79, used a lengthy interview with The Telegraph to suggest that the King would have 'taken a very different stand' from the UK Government on the current conflict with Iran, while also describing King Charles as 'a friend of mine' and praising him as 'a great representative for your country.' The remarks dropped just weeks before King Charles is due in Washington for his first state visit to the United States as King, a trip already freighted with diplomatic symbolism.
