President Biden is set to meet King Charles while in London next week, the White House announced on Sunday.
The president will travel to the United Kingdom on July 9 and also will meet with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
The meeting with King Charles will be the first time the two have met since the coronation in May and it will take place on July 10 at Windsor Castle, the BBC reported. The two engagements are to “to further strengthen the close relationship between our nations,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Shooters remain at large in Baltimore block party shooting Senate rankings: five seats most likely to flip
The president will then travel to Vilnius, Lithuania for the NATO Summit and Helsinki, Finland for a U.S.-Nordic Leaders Summit.
First lady Jill Biden traveled to London to attend the coronation in May, representing the United States. Biden spoke with King Charles in April to congratulate him and the president attended the late Queen’s funeral in September.
Biden hosted Sunak at the White House last month. Before that, the two were together in Japan for the Group of Seven summit in May and Biden visited Sunak in Northern Ireland in April when the president marked the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
