King Charles' planned state visit to Washington on 27 April will go ahead despite a shooting at the White House Correspondents' dinner in the US capital days earlier, but a former royal aide has claimed Queen Elizabeth II would have 'had the government pull the plug' on such a trip in the current climate of political tension and gun violence.
The King, 77, and Queen Camilla, 78, are due to spend four days in the United States, meeting President Donald Trump and marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, in what insiders describe as the monarch's most politically delicate overseas mission to date.
