00:04Ladies and gentlemen please rise if you are able as honors are rendered to the
00:09president and remaining standing for the arrival of their majesties King Charles
00:14the third and Queen Camilla and the playing of the national anthems of the
00:18United Kingdom and the United States
00:48Ladies and gentlemen the president of the United
00:50States Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump
01:25and First Lady Melania Trump and First Lady Melania Trump and First Lady Melania
01:25and First Lady Melania Trump and First Lady Nolan
04:53Ladies and gentlemen, the National Anthem of the United Kingdom followed by the National
04:59Anthem of the United States.
08:28There we go.
08:54There we go.
08:59There we go.
09:29There we go.
10:00There we go.
10:30There we go.
11:21There we go.
11:49There we go.
11:52There we go.
12:25There we go.
12:52There we go.
13:22There we go.
13:47There we go.
14:19There we go.
14:22Thank you very much, everybody.
14:24What a beautiful British day this is.
14:30And it really is.
14:40Welcome to the White House.
14:43Great honor.
18:20I have a great place.
18:20a special woman who is very greatly missed
18:23on both sides of that mighty Atlantic,
18:27long ago planted a young tree.
18:31It was a very young and beautiful tree,
18:33and look at it now.
18:36It's tripled in size and tripled in strength,
18:39very much as our nations have even more than tripled.
18:44Like our nation itself, it was laid with British hands
18:48but grew in American soil.
18:50Today, it stands tall and proud, reaching ever higher.
18:54And this morning, it reminds us that the mightiest of trees,
18:58like the greatest of nations,
19:00must be anchored by the strongest and deepest of roots.
19:05In the centuries since we won our independence,
19:09Americans have had no closer friends than the British.
19:14We share that same root.
19:17We speak the same language.
19:20We hold the same values.
19:23And together, our warriors have defended the same
19:27extraordinary civilization under twin banners
19:30of red, white, and blue.
19:33My wonderful mother, Mary MacLeod.
19:36Mary MacLeod was born in Stornoway, Scotland.
19:42The Hebrides, and that's what they call very serious Scotland.
19:45There's no question about it.
19:47Some places, they say, well, it wasn't really Scotland.
19:50The Hebrides, that's real serious Scotland.
19:54That's where they had their greatest of warriors.
19:56Their greatest of warriors.
19:59She came to America at 19, met my incredible father.
20:05We loved him so much.
20:07We all loved him.
20:07We loved her, we loved him, Fred.
20:11And they were married for 63 years.
20:17And excuse me if you don't mind.
20:19That's a record we won't be able to match, darling.
20:22I'm sorry.
20:23Just not going to work out that way.
20:25We'll do well, but we're not going to do that well.
20:27Well, 63 years.
20:32And my mother, I just see it so clearly.
20:39She loved, and I told the king this, she loved the royal family.
20:44And she loved the queen.
20:49And any time the queen was involved in a ceremony or anything, my mother would be glued to the
20:56television and she'd say, look, Donald, look how beautiful that is.
21:03She really did love the family.
21:04But I also remember her saying very clearly, Charles, look, young Charles, he's so cute.
21:16That's my mother.
21:18My mother had a crush on Charles.
21:21Can you believe it?
21:23Amazing how, I wonder what she's thinking right now.
21:28But beneath those beautiful flags, eight decades ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President
21:34Franklin Roosevelt famously met on a ship in the North Atlantic to outline a vision for
21:42the free world after World War II.
21:46That understanding of our nation's unique bond and role in history is the essence of our special
21:52relationship and we hope it will always remain that way.
21:58The ship where the two great leaders met was called the Prince of Wales.
22:03The very title that his majesty, the king held longer than any other individual in
22:09British history.
22:11And he held it with great pride and respect.
22:15It's said that when Prime Minister Churchill first met this future king many decades ago,
22:22he was so impressed.
22:24He made the statement, he is so young to think so much and so well.
22:32And the bust of your great prime minister rests proudly again in the Oval Office.
22:42We're very proud to bring it back.
22:44We brought it back.
22:46We brought it back.
22:47Throughout his majesty's life, the world has witnessed that same thoughtfulness which first
22:54struck Britain's greatest prime minister.
22:57His majesty's intellect, passion and devotion have been a long, really a long blessing, blessing
23:05to the British people.
23:08But not only to his own country, but to the cherished bond between the United States and
23:16the United Kingdom.
23:17And I am very certain that it will continue that way long into the future.
23:25In a few hours, his majesty will stand in the heart of the United States Capitol as the very
23:33first British king ever to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
23:42So he's going to be addressing Congress and I'm going to be watching.
23:47I was thinking of going, but they said, I don't know.
23:50That might be a step too far, I would love to go.
23:55It's not supposed to be protocol, but I would love to be with you.
23:59But there, the direct descendant of King George III will speak to the direct successor of the
24:08very body that gathered in Independence Hall on July 4th, 1776.
24:14If John Adams and George Washington or the king's fifth great-grandfather could see that sight,
24:21they might be absolutely shocked, but probably only for a moment.
24:27Surely they would be delighted that the wounds of war healed into the most cherished friendship.
24:35Think of that very, very long ago difficult war, and yet those wounds did indeed heal into the most cherished
24:46of friendships.
24:47Most cherished.
24:48They would be moved beyond words to know that the soldiers who once called each other redcoats and Yankees
24:56became the Tommies and the GIs who together saved the free world as brothers in arms and brothers in eternity,
25:04and nobody fought better together than us.
25:08If they could see us today, our ancestors would surely be filled with awe and pride
25:16that the Anglo-American revolution in human freedom was never, ever extinguished,
25:23but carried forward across centuries, across oceans, and across history until it became a fire that lit the entire world.
25:32So today we look back on 250 years.
25:38Let us remember what has made our countries the two most exceptional nations the world has ever known.
25:46And together, let us go forward with even stronger resolve to carry on our sacred devotion to liberty
25:53and to the traditions of excellence that have been our shared gift of all mankind.
26:01Your Majesties, thank you once again for making this important visit.
26:08We are so honored.
26:11May God forever bless the United Kingdom, Great Britain,
26:16and Northern Ireland, and may God bless the United States of America.
26:23Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
26:56Ladies and gentlemen, please rise if you are able for the conclusion of the ceremony and
27:01departure of the official party.
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