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No question. I think this is a real
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statement by the king uh and by the
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senior members of the royal family. I
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mean, it's very rare they all get
0:08
together um like this for a visit by a
0:10
foreign leader. They're doing it to make
0:12
a point. I think they recognize the
0:15
world feels a little bit precarious
0:16
right now. You have two raging wars in
0:20
Ukraine and in Gaza. And you have a a
0:23
lot of people, particularly since the
0:24
appalling murder of Charlie Kirk, I
0:27
think, are feeling very tense about the
0:29
way that issues like free speech are
0:31
going in the world. And I think that the
0:33
royal family want to make a statement.
0:34
They are aligning themselves very
0:36
publicly today with a president of the
0:39
United States who they know actually
0:41
believes in his in his heart
0:43
fundamentally in the principles of free
0:44
speech as indeed do they. So I think
0:47
that this is a a it's a statement by the
0:49
royal family. We're going to roll out
0:51
the ultimate red carpet. And again, just
0:53
to stress, I've not seen this done for
0:55
any other world leader. This is
0:57
unprecedented. And bearing in mind that
0:59
Donald Trump is getting a second state
1:01
visit, but the first one was for a
1:03
different monarch. So, nobody has ever,
1:06
US president or anybody else has ever
1:08
had a state visit with two different
1:10
monarchs. So, that again, I think is an
1:12
important thing to to to say. Last time
1:14
it was with Queen Elizabeth. This time
1:16
it's with her eldest son, King Charles.
1:19
Uh that is real history and and I keep
1:22
coming back to how his mother would
1:24
feel, Donald Trump's mother, Mary, how
1:26
she would have felt about this watching
1:28
her son just on a human level, you know,
1:30
having these extraordinary moments uh
1:33
with the queen and then with the king. I
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mean, really remarkable, I think.
