Joe Biden takes tea and talks climate with Britain’s King Charles
- It was Biden’s first meeting with Charles since he was officially crowned king in May and followed the president’s fifth meeting with UK PM Rishi Sunak
- The king is a lifelong environmentalist and the president considers him a ‘clarion voice’ on climate change
US President Joe Biden dropped in for tea and climate change talks to King Charles on Monday, after a garden meeting with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before a Nato leaders’ summit on Ukraine.
President Biden, 80, flew in his Marine One helicopter from Downing Street in central London to Windsor Castle, touching down for a ceremonial welcome from a band of red-jacketed Welsh Guards.
The Star Spangled Banner and God Save the King rang out across the manicured lawns of the stately royal residence west of London, before the pair disappeared inside.
It was Biden’s first meeting with Charles since he was officially crowned king in May. The US president did not attend the coronation but was represented by his wife, first lady Jill Biden.
The couple had been at the state funeral of Charles’s mother, Queen Elizabeth, in September last year, while Biden visited the late queen at Windsor after the G7 summit in 2021.
Charles, 74, is a lifelong environmentalist and Biden considers him a “clarion voice” on climate change, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.