WATCH: King and Queen's special visit to Canada House London

WATCH: King and Queens special visit to Canada House London

King Charles and Queen Camilla visit Canada House in Trafalgar square to mark the 100th anniversary of its opening, ahead of their visit to Canada later this month.

The King and Queen will visit Canada from Monday 26th to Tuesday 27th May.

Their Majesties will attend The State Opening of the Parliament of Canada, in Ottawa.

As the country’s head of state, The King will deliver the speech from the throne to open the new session of Parliament. This in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated taunts that the country could become the 51st state.

As Prince Charles, above, he last visited Canada three years ago. He’s shown here taking part in a sustainable finance roundtable meeting in Ottawa on May 18, 2022.

“Unprecedented for Canada, unprecedented for Charles personally, unprecedented for the Crown and unprecedented for the state of affairs in North America,” royal historian Justin Vovk said in an interview.

The visit comes at the invitation of new Prime Minister Mark Carney, who announced it just four days after his Liberals won election to form a minority government.

The visit will be Charles’s first to Canada as monarch. Planning for a trip around this time a year ago was put off after his cancer diagnosis earlier in 2024.

Never has a King read the speech in Ottawa. Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, granted royal assent to several bills when he and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, visited Canada in 1939, but he didn’t read a speech from the throne.