has been a continued source of frustration, however. His administration’s unwillingness to authorize a fulsome trade deal for the U.K. “Biden often speaks colorfully and maybe without fully thinking through the implications,” Beers said, “but I don't think he was intending to go to Ireland and put any strain on the historic relationship between Britain and the United States.” Tension over trade deals president’s visit to London now ends the “kerfuffle” and puts to rest speculation that the alliance between the two nations “is in some kind of peril or is under strap,” said Laura Beers, a British history expert and professor at American University. president has attended the coronation of a British monarch, Biden’s critics added it to his tally of perceived slights against the U.K.
leader told the British monarch he would not attend his coronation. His trip to Ireland came on the heels of a phone call to Charles in which the U.S. The American president with Irish ancestry angered Brexit supporters who accused him of harboring “anti-British” sentiments and meddling in the U.K.’s affairs after an April visit to Ireland to trace his heritage and celebrate a landmark peace accord.īiden fanned the flames a month after the trip when he said during a political fundraiser that he visited Northern Ireland to make sure the “Brits didn't screw around” with commitments under the U.S.-brokered agreement that brought peace to the region. Now, Biden will have an opportunity to smooth over tensions, real or imagined, with a brief stop in England and visit with the king this week en route to a NATO summit.
LONDON - When President Joe Biden missed King Charles III’s once-in-a-lifetime coronation last spring, his absence was interpreted by some in the British populace as a snub.
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