The King donned all his medals today
King Charles wore his medal bar today (Image: Getty)
King Charles wore an impressive array of medals and badges today as he carried out engagements for the last day of his state visit to the US with Queen Camilla. The royal couple were bid farewell by the US President and the First Lady in Washington before they headed to Virginia to visit Arlington National Cemetery.
The cemetery is one of the US’s most significant sites of military remembrance. Charles and Camilla laid a wreath and a posy at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The monarch was pictured wearing a full medal bar pinned to the left-hand side of his jacket.
King Charles’s medals (Image: Getty)
The Trumps bid farewell to the King and Queen (Image: Getty)
From left to right, the medals are as follows: Queen’s Service Order (New Zealand, Coronation Medal, Silver Jubilee Medal, Golden Jubilee Medal, Diamond Jubilee Medal, Platinum Jubilee Medal, Naval Long Service Good Conduct (LSGC) with three additional service bars, Canadian Forces Decoration with three additional service bars, The New Zealand Commemorative Medal and the New Zealand Armed Forces Award.
On top of the medals, another badge was pinned: the UK Veterans’ Association badge, awarded to those who received a medal for service in the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Marines, RAF, Home Guard, or the reserve forces.
Around his neck, Charles also wore the Order for Merit, which is awarded to those who have provided distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture.
The Order is restricted to 24 members, as well as additional foreign recipients.
Charles and Camilla have fulfilled a packed agenda since touching down in Washington on Monday, while smoothing transatlantic tensions over the Iran war.
Their busy and varied schedule took the royal couple from taking tea at the White House with Donald Trump and his wife Melania, and a garden party at the British embassy, to meeting tech moguls, a high-profile visit to Congress and a white-tie banquet in their honour.
They also travelled to New York where they left flowers and paid their respects at the memorial to the thousands killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks almost 25 years ago.
The most closely watched event of the trip, to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, was Charles’s historic address on Capitol Hill to a joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives.
He was only the second British monarch to do so after his mother Queen Elizabeth II in 1991, and the first British king.
Later, the couple will attend a “block party” in Virginia, featuring food and entertainment to celebrate America, the creation of the nation’s Founding Fathers described by Charles in his Congress address as “bold and imaginative rebels with a cause”.
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