{"id":27333,"date":"2026-04-28T03:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:03:29","slug":"uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The planners of the monarch\u2019s visit to the White House reportedly want to avoid potentially \u201chumiliating\u201d incidents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"440\">UK officials have pushed to bar journalists from a meeting between King Charles III and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, out of concern over potentially embarrassing incidents, The Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing people involved in planning the monarch\u2019s trip to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, the White House agreed that the meeting between the two leaders should be held off camera to avoid what it described as <em>\u201cpotential humiliation.\u201d<\/em> Trump and Charles will pose for photographs but will not be filmed <em>\u201ctalking about anything substantive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UK officials reportedly want to avoid a <em>\u201cZelensky-style clash,\u201d<\/em> referring to the infamous White House meeting between Trump and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in February 2025, which ended in a shouting match in front of the press.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance publicly berated Zelensky, accusing him of being ungrateful for the aid his country received under the previous administration. Relations between Trump and Zelensky were eventually repaired after several European leaders reportedly advised Zelensky on how to handle himself with the president.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1756\">King Charles and Queen Camilla arrived in the US on Tuesday and posed for photographs with Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcome King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the U.K. at the South Portico of the White House | Monday, April 27, 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eLrNqpwN0D\">pic.twitter.com\/eLrNqpwN0D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Office of the First Lady (@FirstLadyOffice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirstLadyOffice\/status\/2048898034302439692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"2071\">The visit comes two days after a gunman attempted to assassinate Trump at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC. The suspect, identified as Cole Thomas Allen, allegedly tried to rush toward the ballroom where Trump was seated, but was tackled by Secret Service agents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planners of the monarch\u2019s visit to the White House reportedly want to avoid potentially \u201chumiliating\u201d incidents UK officials have pushed to bar journalists from a meeting between King Charles III and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, out of concern over potentially embarrassing incidents, The Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing people involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rt-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian - Sting FM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian - Sting FM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The planners of the monarch\u2019s visit to the White House reportedly want to avoid potentially \u201chumiliating\u201d incidents UK officials have pushed to bar journalists from a meeting between King Charles III and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, out of concern over potentially embarrassing incidents, The Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing people involved [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sting FM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-28T07:03:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/\",\"name\":\"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian - Sting FM\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-28T07:03:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Sting FM\",\"description\":\"Just another WordPress site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian - Sting FM","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian - Sting FM","og_description":"The planners of the monarch\u2019s visit to the White House reportedly want to avoid potentially \u201chumiliating\u201d incidents UK officials have pushed to bar journalists from a meeting between King Charles III and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, out of concern over potentially embarrassing incidents, The Guardian reported on Tuesday, citing people involved [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/","og_site_name":"Sting FM","article_published_time":"2026-04-28T07:03:29+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/","url":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/","name":"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian - Sting FM","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-04-28T07:03:29+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/uk-officials-fear-zelensky-style-clash-between-trump-and-king-charles-guardian\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UK officials fear \u2018Zelensky-style clash\u2019 between Trump and King Charles \u2013 Guardian"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/","name":"Sting FM","description":"Just another WordPress site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/author\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}