President Donald Trump’s threats to annex the largest of Charles’s realms has thrust the monarch into a difficult diplomatic maelstrom.

Canada once downplayed the monarchy. Now, it is leaning on it to assert its sovereignty.

Sarah Ferguson has made an overture towards the United States as King Charles prepares to make a trip to Canada. The Duchess of York, 65, and mother of Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, celebrated how an American icon “showed the world” at an event in London.