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The king and queen don’t get to America often — their last visit was nearly two decades ago. On Wednesday, the royals honored the victims of 9/11 as the centerpiece of their short stay.
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King Charles and Queen Camilla’s remembrance, meeting with families and laying a wreath at the memorial downtown, is not just a gesture to Americans, months shy of marking the quarter-century anniversary of the terror attacks.
The British and Commonwealth people lost 67 souls on 9/11 — the most of any nation other than our own. The toll was an emblem of our countries’ closeness: Executives thought nothing of a quick trip across the Atlantic. The Windows on the World conference atop One World Trade Center — from which no one escaped — was a part-British event. Some victims marked their only time ever in New York not in days but in hours.
The king’s mother and his heir previously paid their 9/11 respects on New York soil. Queen Elizabeth visited a Lower Manhattan garden dedicated to UK victims in 2010. Kate and William visited the 9/11 memorial in 2014. This tradition is becoming an important thread of the US-UK bond.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here. Nicole is the author of Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car, available now.