WASHINGTON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday congratulated Britain’s new King Charles III and said First Lady Jill Biden would attend the upcoming coronation, the White House said.
Biden spoke with the monarch “underscoring the strength of the relationship between our countries and the friendship between our peoples. The president congratulated the king on his upcoming coronation,” the White House said in a statement.
Biden also said he looked forward to meeting the king “at a future date.”
The king, who took over after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, is due to be crowned on May 6.
Biden is expected to visit the British province of Northern Ireland this month, as well as the Republic of Ireland. He met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in California in March and invited him to the White House this June. — NNN-AGENCIES
