King Charles’s address to the US Congress on Tuesday 28th April was a master-class in diplomacy, as it needed to be, timing, and disarming comedy. His Majesty has been in the game of public speaking a long time, and all that experience showed through. He is very good at it. Watch it here:
The 250th anniversary of the 1776 US Declaration of Independence will fall on 4th July this year, and the King exhibited his trademark light touch in marking it. The 119th Congress House of Representatives gave him no fewer than 12 standing ovations.
As to the detail, I was not aware people, even of the king’s era, still used the expression ‘by Jove’. It’s a reference not to ‘Yehovah’ but to Jupiter, apparently. He could have done without it.
Not ‘Diversity’ again!
We also had three references to ‘diversity’. In the first he shoehorned this modern fad into the doings of the US Founding Fathers who, he claimed, drew ‘strength in diversity’ as they ‘united 13 disparate colonies’. The unity of the colonies was in reality a product of their shared Christianity.
Secondly, King Charles contended: ‘In both of our countries, it is the very fact of our vibrant, diverse and free societies that gives us our collective strength.’ You’ll be aware that ‘strength in diversity’ is the Establishment mantra supporting their multicultural fantasy, repeated in HM’s 2025 Christmas message, by politicians after the Bondi beach massacre and by Sir Keir Starmer. It is never explained, no evidence is ever produced for it, but if a lie is repeated often enough…
The third reference was on the inevitable environmentalism. His Majesty claimed the ‘ice-caps of the Arctic’ are ‘disastrously melting’, which is debatable, and he spoke of ‘critical natural systems, which threatens far more than the harmony and essential diversity of nature’. That, of course, was the theme of his 2010 book ‘Harmony’.
When His Majesty speaks on public policy, he speaks on behalf of His Majesty’s Government. But it would be too easy to think he just read something prepared by civil servants. The whole tenor of it had ‘Buckingham Palace’ stamped all over it, especially in the well-researched historical references. And indeed, on multiculturalism and climate fanaticism, the Palace and Whitehall are these days inseparable.
Christian faith an ‘anchor’
Apart from all that, it was good to have a reference to the ‘hope’ of Easter and to hear this from King Charles: ‘And, Mr Speaker, for many here – and for myself – the Christian faith is a firm anchor and daily inspiration that guides us not only personally, but together as members of our community.’
Heb 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
The day after, His Majesty visited ‘Ground Zero’, the site of the Twin Towers massacre of 11th September 2001, without mentioning Islam, of course, and on 30th April HM and Queen Camilla honoured the fallen at Arlington Cemetery. There were other engagements, SEE HERE but these were the important ones for diplomacy.
Overall, we should pray His Majesty’s speech, and his state visit, will repair the current fractured relationship between the US and UK. That is why it was essential for him constantly to stress how much the US and UK have in common.
Prayer
Right now, the Argentinian government is threatening the Falkland Islands with apparent US support. We have reported on this in the context of the woke and effete leadership of armed forces, sinking in a moral morass.
Therefore, pray that behind the scenes His Majesty will lobby Donald Trump to row back the Pentagon’s rocking of the boat and to stand unequivocably with the right of the Islanders to stay British and with UK sovereignty over this valuable resource.
Please also remember to pray for His Majesty and the royal family daily. On the basis that prayer should lead to action, you can write to His Majesty and tell him you are praying for him and commend and/or admonish him: ‘His Majesty The King, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA’. You can open with ‘Sir’ (although I write: ‘May it please Your Majesty’) and close the letter with the form ‘I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’.
Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. (KJV – which His Majesty loves!)
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