Here are some more photos of King Charles and Queen Camilla in Northern Ireland this week. They were in Belfast on Wednesday, and on Thursday, they were in Limavady. They did a “walkabout” and there were some official-looking events, but the best photos were from their visit to Hunters Bakery. I would say that Charles and Camilla – much like William and Kate in Wales several weeks ago – made a point of handling food and doing a cooking “photo op” as some kind of message for/about the Duchess of Sussex and her show. But I have to admit that Charles and Camilla always do food-based photo-ops. It’s one of the few things I like about them – wherever they go, they stop by local bakeries, pubs and delis. Charles has always had a particular interest in what locals are baking, while Camilla has always had a particular interest in local spirits.
Charles also stopped by Ulster University’s Pharmacy and Pharmacology Department, where he met some fellow cancer patients. Charles quoted Winston Churchill, telling them “keep buggering on.” That was Churchill’s sign-off during WWII too, often abbreviated to “KBO.” Speaking of WWII, Donald Trump is “considering” giving up America’s long-standing position at the command of NATO. NATO is one of the strongest alliances in history, built in the wake of WWII, and America has maintained the American-only command position since the Eisenhower administration. Any day now, Trump will take the US out of NATO completely, I’m sure. All of which brings me to this ridiculous piece by the Mail’s Richard Eden – apparently, King Charles is going to invite the US into the British Commonwealth.
When Sir Keir Starmer personally delivered a letter from King Charles to Donald Trump at the White House last month, inviting him for an unprecedented second state visit, the American President said the monarch was a ‘beautiful man, a wonderful man’. It would, Trump added, be an ‘honour’ to visit the King’s ‘fantastic’ country.
Now, I hear that the monarch could make the president an offer he might find tempting.
And one which could help dampen down tensions between the White House and Canada, of which the King is head of state. Plans are being made for the USA to become the next ‘associate member’ of the Commonwealth.The King shares his late mother’s deep affection and respect for the global ‘family of nations’, and sees it as particularly important at a time of international conflict and global uncertainty. The Commonwealth, whose nations have a total population of more than 2.7billion, is one of the world’s oldest political associations of states, with its roots in the British Empire.
Although America declared independence from Britain in 1776, this would be no impediment to its becoming the 57th member of the Commonwealth. The last four countries to join (Mozambique, Rwanda, Togo and Gabon) have no links with the British Empire, underlining the Commonwealth’s role as a voluntary organisation of independent and equal states.
The proposals were made by the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS), with the apparent backing of Queen Elizabeth, during Trump’s first term as president, but did not come to fruition. Now, the plans have been revived, with members of the society hopeful that the King will make the case to Trump when he meets him.
‘This is being discussed at the highest levels,’ a member claimed this week, telling me: ‘It would be a wonderful move that would symbolise Britain’s close relationship with the US. Donald Trump loves Britain and has great respect for the Royal Family, so we believe he would see the benefits of this. Associate membership could, hopefully, be followed by full membership, making the Commonwealth even more important as a global organisation.’
The source added: ‘The Commonwealth is also a great forum for resolving differences between nations, and the King has shown that he is a natural peacemaker.’
Charles can offer, but as soon as Trump sees the list of Commonwealth member nations, he’ll say no. Because of woke. Global politics is a joke these days – Trump is seriously going to destroy NATO and then Charles will be like “hey, do you want to join our Former-Colony Group?” What’s even dumber is that the Commonwealth isn’t going to last much longer either – it will not survive past Charles, let’s be real.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
-
- King Charles III meets locals as he arrives in Limavady, on day two of the royal visit to Northern Ireland Featuring: King Charles III Where: Limavady, United Kingdom When: 20 Mar 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
-
- King Charles III and Queen Camilla see a demonstration of the production of Ulster Scots Crumpets at Hunters Bakery in Limavady, on day two of the royal visit to Northern Ireland Featuring: King Charles III, Queen Camilla Where: Limavady, United Kingdom When: 20 Mar 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
-
- King Charles III and Queen Camilla are given a tour of Hunters Bakery in Limavady, on day two of the royal visit to Northern Ireland Featuring: King Charles III Where: Limavady, United Kingdom When: 20 Mar 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
-
- King Charles III waves goodbye to well-wishers following a visit to the Cancer Research Centre at Ulster University, on day two of the royal visit to Northern Ireland Featuring: King Charles III Where: United Kingdom When: 20 Mar 2025 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
😂😂😂😂😂😂
No.
So Chuck can lord over the USA? What was the War of Independence all about?
Trump wants to be a King not answer to one, but nice try Maureen (Eden)
I actually would prefer this, and I freaking loathe the British monarchy. That’s how bad things are in the U.S.
If Charles can flatter Trump into joining the Commonwealth, it’s worth a try.
That would be a sure fire way to get him impeached AND removed from office…even MAGA would be incensed
War of Independence AND 1812…
Did Charles meet with RFK Jr at some point? Was he gifted his very own brain worm? Because this whole premise is beyond ridiculous.
The UK press treating their own monarch like a deluded pick me girl is certainly a look…
I’m British and I thought the opposite. No way because America would take over and take charge and Lord it over everybody.
This is Charles low key trolling Trump and the sovereignty of the US as Trump is threatening Canada, Greenland, Gaza etc. Hope he gets it, but the guy is too dumb and crazy.
Suggesting that the Commonwealth is an adequate substitute for membership in NATO, a military alliance primarily, indicates that the British have lost the plot. And other NATO members assume that Trump has left the alliance and are acting accordingly.
We’ve all lost the plot. Trump comes up with different crap everyday. Who knows what is actually happening.
Also sorry but these days… if the US is in, a lot of people are going to want out.
No. Then the lazy heir can conquer the USA. Charles has some nerve and does not have the popularity his mother had
KC rather famously waited almost his entire life to become king, a position he desperately wanted and he did not bother to hide his desire to become one. Someone needs to dit him down, annunciate slowly and clearly that this is a dreadful idea. Guess who else wants to be king (hint: he also wants to take over another Commonwealth nation, and steal an island from another European country). Dumb idea.
It’s very naive to think the 🍊💩 stain won’t sabotage the Commonwealth to his own advantage (and Putin’s) as he did with NATO. The British establishment seems to think they can coopt him. They need another Churchill, one who isn’t a racist, colonizer.
Well Charles has three lines of descent from George 3. He and his lazy heir should stay away.
The comments above reflect exactly how Canadians feel about the constant threats to our sovereignty and lording over us with the 51st state nonsense.
Ridiculous no matter who says it! I’m so angry that Trump apparently now thinks he is emperor of the world 😡
It’s horrible enough what he is doing to the US, but trying to ruin every alliance -I have no words!
Sorry world 🌎 , Canada in particular.
Exactly! Trumps ramblings about Canada becoming the 51st state needs to stop. Him calling our (now former) Prime Minister needs to stop (has he referred to Mark Carney as ‘governor’ yet?) If so, Carney should refer to Trump as Premier Trump. He can infer that the US can become the 11th province, of which Trump can be premier. Trump’s head would probably spin.
I took this as Charles trolling trump by showing how asinine it is for the US to just TAKE Canada. At least I hope so.
I seem to remember a time when Chuck was considered intelligent — by RF standards, that is.
That anyone would dare mention this ridiculous proposal in public shows me that the Men in Grey and gold-plated advisers on the Island of Left-Behinds aka Brexitannia are suffering from cognitive disorders that severely affect their way of critical thinking.
Felon47’s maladministration are Russia’s puppets when they’re not executing their own oligarchs’ orders.
So this idea should never have gone beyond a mood board in one of the countless palaces’ basements.
Charles did very un intelligent things for most of his life.
I live in Scotland. Please do not refer to the island of left behinds. We didn’t vote for Brexit and we don’t vote Tory. We also really dislike trump.
No, I do think The Commonwealth will survive Charles, there won’t be the BRF as head of same.
I do remember when the Queen (the last Queen, Elizabeth II) was stepping down, the Commonwealth Nations at the time were exploring elections, but she used the last bit of her influence for Charles to be named head. But then, Charles was interested.
William has shown that he has no interest in maintain the links. Ironically, the only young Royal who seemed to appreciate it was Harry (and by extension Meghan, who had the flowers of The Commonwealth embroidered in her veil) but they (understandably to save themselves) left.
Meghan had Commonwealth flowers embroidered on her wedding dress because QE2 had appointed Prince Harry and Meghan as her ambassadors of the Commonwealth. The plan was for them to travel to different Commonwealth countries to shore up support for the Commonwealth.
1776 and 1812 was the message from America of saying no to the British Crown. Trump is trying to be a king in the US, and there are nationwide protests of unelected Elon Musk dismantling federal agencies. What makes this idiot think the US would welcome being part of the Commonwealth?
It sounds so silly that I wonder if it is true. The King can’t possibly think that he could control Trump through the Commonwealth.
Charles is blundering and lacks common sense. His mother was a lot more popular and tactful. Charles is also not as well liked as he thinks. What with all the not my king signs.
Delusions of grandeur – dementia must be setting in.
The BRITISH Commonwealth? Really? Increasingly I am convinced that entire country is deranged. Their narcicism is unparalleled. They actually think Trump would be flattered to be part of a has been network of mainly third world countries headed by a has been country that is one-fifth the size of the US. No wonder Meghan is able to run circles around them.
Trump wants to be king, not a vassal to someone else. And Trump doesn’t like non-white, non-English speaking people who make up the majority of the Commonwealth.
I’m sure that tRump would be flattered to know that you think he knows what a “Commonwealth country” is. Hint: He doesn’t!
@GMH
“Third world Countries”?
Your racism is obvious.
Was capsulizing Trump’s thinking.
The whole country? So should we assume US posters here are all deranged cultish supporters of the wannabe despot that is the country’s leader? Because, you know, Americans? Some nuance would be welcome.
Quite.
This! Lol most if the member states are “shithole countries” “no one ever heard of” (Trump’s words). Trump would laugh him out of the room.
What?😂😂😂😂 is he drunk? Or is he finally revealing that he is not that smart? What the heck!
Not sure having 2 dudes who believe they’re entitled to be king is a sane plan. What is he bucking to be featured in a chapter titled
“The War of the Paved Over Rose Garden” in some future history book?
Or is this just a desperately insane idea for a narcissist to try to claw back control over the scapegoat who escaped, Harry.
The audacity! The absurdity! Why? So that Charles (and then Peg) can be the boss of us? Ridiculous! The Brits have lost their natural minds! We are Americans, we have no king, no matter what the heinous orange dumpster wants. We were never a British slave colony and you won’t be “charming” us or lording over us. The hubris of that man!
Besides, Charles detests and mistreats his American DIL and grandchildren, rejecting them because they have Black blood, but he can fix his lips to suggest that we Americans all bow down to him? Stop. Full stop!
What was done and is still being done to Duchess Meghan is horrid enough, but don’t insult us by suggesting that we make the British monarchs our leaders.
Whoever is suggesting this is a MAGA and deluded.
We don’t need no stinking king. We already have one who thinks he is king.
Canada out US in?
It didnt escape then that Trump got invited for a second state visit after the tariff war with Canada
I doubt this is true. Even Charles isn’t this dumb.
That’s what I thought too. First it’s the daily heil and secondly calling him a “natural peacemaker” sealed the ridiculousness of the entire piece.
Trump wants to invade Greenland, annex Canada as a 51st state, and build condos in Gaza. Pretty sure joining a multi nation boy band with Charles as the lead singer and Trump maaaaybe as the bass player is the last thing he’ll consider.
I can totally envision Chucky luring Mango into a “diplomatic” associate of the Commonwealth by suggesting that Mango’s likeness might end up on a Commonwealth currency. Baiting him with that suggestion feeds right into Mango’s narcissistic personality.
For my beloved Canadian cousins (literally I have Canadian cousins) and Canadian friends here at CB, I am so sorry you’re having to tolerate this shit being flung at you from your southern border. Keep up the boycott—🇨🇦❤️
Unlikely that USA will join the Commonwealth. But Trump is in an expansive mood so may be Trump will invite UK to join USA as the 52th state after Canada.
No thanks.
King Charles is a WHOLE 🤬 🤡 if this is true…inviting a Putin backed fascist into their Commonwealth which is ALREADY a joke regarding Royal optics!
One of the positive blowbacks I see of this 🤬 show of geopolitics is that I 😍 that the free 🌏 (I guess😒) is stepping away from looking at the 🇺🇸 as the leader and have strengthen their own coalitions WITHOUT US! The 🇺🇸 elections over the last 12 years along with Putin co-opting the WHOLE 🤬 Republican Party/SCOTUS along with our voting system being corrupted AF (test run was done when the Lessor Bush ran & won 😡 ) means that 🇺🇸 can no longer be trusted…You can’t trust a nation where 70+ million folks will vote for fascism ad naseum
From an invitation to lunch to an invitation to join CW, its seems to me a step too far. And another dm fabulation.
I don’t believe that the King is that silly. At least I hope so.
…more like demented, which would then be something that C-III would have in common with Donald Trump.
But, I suspect the Daily Fail is making this up…
Although, on the other hand, we have entered the Twilight Zone realm of “You can’t make this shit up…”
I guess we’ll see when these two very different men-I still think they’re different-get together..
Eden is an absolute idiot. Charles is not this stupid considering the UK policy controls his decisions and they sure as hell won’t ask the adversary to join their group.
Eden should stick to writing gossip to pay for his dog biscuits.
This has been the BRF’s plan for a long time. They’ve been waiting for some maniac like Trump to come along. The question now will be, “will the American people allow this to happen?” Charles and the BRF are ancient evil. Old evil. They are calm while they’re stabbing you evil. They’re just waiting to exploit a unhinged lunatic with access to nukes.
No one else thinks Chuck is trolling the Orange Traitor? I immediately thought it was a dig aimed at Traitor because of his Canada remarks.
I just read what you wrote after I’d written mine. Yes yes yes
me too, I read it as shade and got a big laugh out of it
Ditto! I think he’s just being passive aggressive towards Trump. The orange idiot thinks it’s all fine and dandy to spew all this BS about annexing Canada, so maybe KC is just playing mind-games with Trump, who started all this crap in the first place.
It’s Putin & Starmer playing chess. Chuck & Trump are puppets.
I actually took this completely as a joke and laughed out loud big time. I see it as a snarky reaction to the Bloatus declaring Canada, Panama and Greenland as our next states….
Yes the Commonwealth is dreadful but that isn’t the funny bit.
Thats one way to keep Trump from annexing Canada I suppose.
Why? So Peg can be even more of a failure when he becomes king one day? It would be better to shrink the commonwealth or abolish the monarchy altogether so that Peg won’t be seen as a huge global failure.
One thing we know is that Will figures on being a light touch monarch and it would cut down on his work load not to be Head of CW. QE2 used her prestige to get that gig for Chuck, there’s no way Chuck can do the same for Wilbur. CW recognise Wilbur is a racist with no leadership qualities who would just be an embarrassment. He was huffy about the Carribbean flop tour like see if I care, go independent all you want, yah boo sucks!!
If William is not up to being head of the Commonwealth do you think that is the carrot he’s using to get Trump on board.? Join us and you will be Head of the Commonwealth. Panders to Trumps need for power.
We never wanted a king so now the probability that Trump will accept skyrockets. I could see the felon wanting in and wanting equal status to Charles. He probably dreams of trying on Charles’ crowns.
Is he being ironic? Fake? Someone wants to annex a country from the Crown’s Commonwealth territory, not peacefully if necessary, and the King, as head of that territory, offers the annexationists to join his territory? I just read that in utter disbelief. Is this supposed to be diplomacy? Does Charles want to embarrass Trump? Does Charles think Trump wants Charles’ likeness on his 5 dollar notes? Uahhh … how crazy ….
The commonwealth has already colonized the USA. Turn on the radio or tv. We (Americans) are barely played. You have English commenters trying to force their laws and ways in us.
While I still have fond feelings for you guys I’m tired of y’all in American business. Lol but serious. Your trash is now being forced on us. I didn’t realize just how bad the English could be because everything was filtered. I see why Spain and various African countries wants to put you out.
As a Brit I really don’t know what to say. The world gets madder by the day. The Commonwealth is dying, imo, why would the USA want to join, and as someone else has commented why would the Commonwealth countries want the USA under Trump to join. We need to concentrate on world peace, or it all really doesn’t matter. I get more genuinely worried by the day about the mental capacity of all these people.
When people said that Trump was going to set us back, they really were not joking. We’re going all the way back to the 1700s. lol
LOLs
Trump administration is now set to rehire 25000+ employees they just fired, with back pay. The judges have also started to block his executive orders including restoring back grants, aid, refugee admission, birthright status etc. Do you see the repeated pattern here, he’s such a joke! What a waste of time and money! Same exact thing with his first term. The U.S. even restored aid back to Ukraine. I’m like wake me the F up when this nightmare is over. Re Nato, considering the other nato countries purchases 2/3s of their Arms from large US defense companies, let’s see if he really does it. Or if he’s going to get cries from his billionaire friends.
Re the U.S. being a British commonwealth- I’m not even going to take this seriously.
Absurd doesn’t even begin to describe this. It’s a notion that wouldn’t occur to anyone with even half a brain. No need to give it any credibility by providing rational arguments against it.
I honestly don’t know what KC is thinking. Has he not seen what is happening in the USA with DEI and Trump about to block the visas of majority non white countries? There is absolutely no way that would Trump want to join the Commonwealth which comprises of 19 countries are in Africa and the members have a combined population of 2.6 billion, almost a third of the world’s population, of whom 1.21 billion live in India, and 95% live in Africa and Asia combined.
This is silly. Trump wants to annex Canada and is imposing tariffs on the UK, not to mention his massive ego and hatred of foreigners. Did Eden forget the travel advisory issued for British citizens visiting the United States? Chuck can’t really be this dumb.
How many nations will decide to exit the Commonwealth after Donald Trump joins? My guess is most of them.
After commenting on here and then reading People’s article saying Trump doesn’t mind joining the Commonwealth- he is so losing his marbles 🤦♀️
They mentioned that it was something that was considered during his first presidency by the late Queen and that makes me think that they 1) know it isn’t a good enough idea that they could suggest it to any other president than an idiot like Trump who is mad with power and can be easily manipulated. 2) they know that they have to use the late Queen as a real bargaining chip when discussing anything in Charles’s reign. They rarely mention the late Queen except when they need or want people to take any decisions made by Charles seriously, they claim she wanted it previously even though there was no mention of it at the time. Besides it’s obvious that towards the last year or two of her reign, Charles (and William) were running things for her. There was too much going on that she was not aware of and Harry’s book showed how easily she was being manipulated towards the end.
As an under attack Canadian, this made me throw up in my mouth a little. Gut punched. We cannot extricate ourselves from the Crown easily, our whole system of government is parliamentary. The Crown has treaties with numerous First Nations. I am appalled & disgusted by this idea.
It alarmed me too. I wonder whether he thinks he can just buy Canada off Chuck, or what.
Bad enough that Keir and Chuck both said “I don’t wanna get involved” when asked about the annexation threats to Canada. Now they want to give him honours? Wtf for?
Keir seems to want to negotiate a free trade deal with that clown. (Canada and Mexico know what that’s worth.) and Keir seems willing to throw Canada under the bus to get it.
IMO, the U.S. invasion of Canada is highly unlikely. He thrives on controversy and pulling people’s legs. Already lost a variety of cases. People thought he would deport H, and look what happened there.
This commonwealth talk, even people in the US don’t believe it.
Countries are tripping over themselves to sever ties to the uk and specifically ‘the Crown’ and this inbred nepo baby thinks that the US would want to join their useless club? Or that it would be perceived as some kind of honour? Makes you wonder how the War of Independence is taught in the UK if at all…..
Hahahahaha.
So instead of (what some people apparently hoped for) meeting with Trump to stand up for Canada and talk him out of his insane tariffs and plans to annex us, Charles wants to talk to Trump about the US becoming part of the Commonwealth? Didn’t America fight a whole war to get out from under British rule? I think Canada should too now because what the f–k is being part of the Commonwealth doing for us?
I would be ecstatic if it meant I’d be able to move to the UK. 🇬🇧
Oh please – let the US crash and burn on its own. Leave the Commonwealth far far away from that silliness.
The only way to entice 🍊💩 to consider joining the Commonwealth is for every other Commonwealth countries paying USA big money annually. Felon47 is all for the money, all the time. He left NATO because he thought American shouldn’t pay huge money into NATO.
These UK government & “reporters are really bonkers; they’re no better than current USA: they don’t care poor, elderly and margalinized people.
I see Trump asking Charles if England wanted to be the 51st state of the U.S. now that Canada has declined that honor. No doubt Charles would be asked to give HIS crown to Trump, as part of the deal. We’re in the “anything can happen” days, and not in a good way. Putin might conquer us to add to the depleted Soviet bloc and Trump would be all in. Putin could be Trump’s co-president, while we all wait who will be poisoned first.