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Like Starmer, King makes time for American corporations
During this four-day visit to the USA, king Charles made a lot of time for American corporations.
The visit comes under the shadow of the Epstein files — which accuse both Trump and King’s brother, Andrew, of involvement with the disgraced paedophile.
The visit was also a corporate fest. A soulless symposium where virtue signalling met venture capital. In the end, the only thing royalty and corporations truly share is an immunity to shame.
On Tuesday, Charles attended a state banquet alongside Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Oracle’s David Ellison, Goldman Sachs’s John Rogers, and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff.
Before the banquet, he also met with Benioff, Cook, Google President Ruth Porat, and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su. According to Reuters, Charles did almost call out their predatory behaviour gently — showing he is aware of the ruthlessness behind American capital.
According to Reuters, Charles noted the “terrible valley of death” for university startups. NVIDIA’s Huang said they need “a vibrant VC ecosystem.” Charles joked, “You’re all deadly competitors.” Huang replied, “No one has to die.” Charles replied, “Really?”
On Wednesday, he met with king Charles — along with senior executives from Bank of America, Blackstone, Comcast, Google, JPMorgan, and OpenAI during a gathering at Rockefeller Center.
His Majesty King Charles III attended a UK/US Trade & Business event at the iconic @rockcenternyc, meeting with business leaders representing the breadth of the economic relationship that drives prosperity in the UK and the US.
The UK and US economies power one another. In New… pic.twitter.com/RZrkJwyNr6
— British Embassy Washington (@UKinUSA) April 30, 2026
King Charles and Labour’s loyalty to American tech giants
Labour’s loyalty to the same US tech giants has already done real damage at home.
According to former CMA chair Marcus Bokkerink, Starmer’s Labour government prefers US tech giants over homegrown competition, warning that the government appears committed to “entrenching the dominance of a small number of tech giants.”
Bokkerink wrote recently,
Under new leadership and government direction, enforcement involving the so-called Big Tech firms has slowed significantly. The Google and Apple investigations concluded without substantive remedies.
The planned investigation into Amazon and Microsoft cloud services was cancelled. The result has been to reinforce the status quo rather than inject fresh competitive dynamism.
As economist Angus Hanton put it in a recent interview with Novara Media, the UK is a “vassal state.”
They own the platforms British people trade on, such as Amazon; the social media the UK uses, like Meta; and the search engines people in Britain use, like Google.
Hanton told Novara:
So our town square is controlled mostly from California.
American corporations employ 2 million British people, he said. Most Britons are uninterested in finding out the true level of American influence on Britain, and most of the data in his research came from American companies themselves.
As Hanton also notes in the interview, 10,000 American military personnel are already stationed in the UK.
Hanton doesn’t believe Britain has a truly independent nuclear deterrent either.
He said:
No politician in the last 20 years has used the phrase ‘independent nuclear deterrent’.
The transatlantic ruling elite are linked by the Epstein files and their worship of capital, centralised in New York and California.
Featured image via the Canary
By The Canary
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