The timing, as they politely put it in diplomatic circles, is sub-optimal. The King of the Falkland Islands, Charles III, and his consort Queen Camilla will visit Washington on Monday, to be greeted by a number of people who, we discover from a Pentagon leak, don’t actually think he should be the King of the Falkland Islands at all.
After almost two hundred years of settlement and a clear British right to sovereignty, His Majesty’s distant realm and his loyal subjects would, it seems, be at threat from American pressure to cede the territory to Argentina. How the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office must dread the president of the United States making one of his famous wisecracks about how he’s seriously considering developing a nice new Trump International golf resort on the Islas Malvinas once they’re under the control of his friend and ideological soulmate president, Javier Milei.
