King Charles III arrives in Washington Monday for a high-stakes state visit aimed at salvaging Britain's frayed ties with Donald Trump, amid extra-tight security following an attack on a gala dinner attended by the US president.
Tensions over the Iran war have rocked the so-called "special relationship" ahead of a trip that was meant to mark the United States' 250th anniversary of independence from the British monarch's ancestors.
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