King Charles, Queen Consort Camilla: crowning moment in long love story

LONDON—After decades of devotion and 18 years of marriage, King Charles III will finally see his goal realized when his “darling wife” Queen Camilla is crowned at his side on Saturday.` She was the non-negotiable part of his life, despite their long relationship challenging Britain’s institutions and triggering strong public resistance. But at London’s Westminster Abbey, Camilla will be anointed and crowned queen, in the presence of world leaders.

Never truly in her element in the public eye, is the woman who lived for so long in the shadows worried about the global spotlight of the coronation?

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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. arrived at London’s Gatwick airport on Friday with the First Family from the United States, just in time to attend the reception hosted by the king at Buckingham Palace for visiting heads of state and VIPs. Mr. Marcos is also expected to meet

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Thursday he doesn’t feel alluded to by the latest statement of China opposing any interventions in the South China Sea after the Philippines and the United States announced new defense guidelines aimed at strengthening their alliance.

“As a Filipino and representing the Philippines, I don’t feel alluded to. How can we --- how can anyone say that we are not a party to and [have no] interest in all these issues?” Marcos said in response to a question at a press conference in Washington D.C.

“I think that kind of statement was directed more towards the United States than it was [toward] the Philippines,” he added as he wrapped up his five-day official visit to the US.

The Philippines and the US have established bilateral defense guidelines to modernize the alliance “for a free and open Indo-Pacific region.”

The guidelines “reaffirmed that an armed attack in the Pacific, including anywhere in the South China Sea, on either of their aircraft or armed forces – which includes their Coast Guards –would invoke mutual defense commitments under the 1951 PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty.”

‘Countries must cooperate amid Taiwan tensions’

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

In a conference hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, Marcos described the situation on the island as “new,” which requires solutions to “also be new and that is why we are now formulating those partnerships between all the different countries.”

“We are continuing to strengthen our cooperation and partnership with other countries, not just our neighboring countries, but also countries that we rarely interact with because we didn’t see the need to establish partnerships,” Marcos said. He said the Philippines’ arrangements and alliances with other countries should be fixed so that they con-