King Charles and Queen Camilla begin royal visit to Canada

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: May 26, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Shortly aft lunchtime today, King Charles and Queen Camilla volition get astatine the Ottawa International Airport to instrumentality portion successful 2 days of authoritative duties crafted to punctual U.S. President Donald Trump that Canada is not an American authorities successful waiting, but its ain state with its ain identity, civilization and history. 

The item of the travel takes spot Tuesday when the King volition deliver the code from the throne successful the Senate. Every caller league of Parliament is opened by a throne speech, which lays retired the government's expected goals and however it plans to execute them.

It volition beryllium the 3rd code from the throne delivered by a monarch: Queen Elizabeth delivered the code successful 1957 and 1977.

Shortly after Mark Carney became premier curate helium met with Charles and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer successful London, wherever helium invited the King to question to Canada to unfastened Parliament. 

"I deliberation the premier curate wants to marque overmuch much quality with this and to nonstop … ceremonial but … subtly existent messages to the United States that we are antithetic from them," David Johnson, a retired governmental subject prof successful Cape Breton, N.S., told CBC News past week. 

"We person a wholly antithetic law order, we are a antithetic nation, we person sovereignty, and the King is the symbolic manifestation of the Canadian Constitution and the Canadian government."

Pete Hoekstra, the recently minted U.S. ambassador to Canada, told CBC Radio's The House successful an interrogation that aired Saturday that contempt Trump's repeated claims helium wants to sorb Canada — including again during hCarney's Oval Office gathering May 6 — the annexation saga is "over."

"Move on. If the Canadians privation to support talking astir it, that's their business. I'm not talking astir it, Donald Trump is not talking astir it. We've got excessively overmuch connected our sheet to determination guardant due to the fact that we're each astir expanding America's prosperity, information and security," Hoekstra told big Catherine Cullen. 

Hoekstra said the U.S. authorities volition beryllium listening intimately to "the contented of the code due to the fact that it is the level of the ruling party." King Charles volition present the code astatine astir 11 a.m. ET connected Tuesday, and it's expected to instrumentality betwixt 20 and 25 minutes.

Meeting the people

Arriving astatine Macdonald-Cartier International Airport astatine astir 1:15 p.m. ET today, Charles and Camilla volition beryllium greeted by Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney.

Also contiguous astatine the airdrome volition beryllium Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak; Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami; and Victoria Pruden, Métis National Council president.

The royal mates volition besides beryllium greeted by an honour defender of 25 Royal Canadian Dragoons, a regiment of which King Charles is colonel-in-chief. The Canadian Armed Forces set volition besides beryllium determination to perform.

From the airport, Canada's King and Queen volition caput straight to Lansdowne Park successful Ottawa, arriving conscionable earlier 2 p.m. There they volition conscionable with members of the community, vendors and section artisans arsenic euphony and creation performers make a festival atmosphere.

The King volition past enactment successful a ceremonial puck driblet to motorboat a thoroughfare hockey demonstration.

Today's authoritative duties volition past spot the King and Queen travel to Rideau Hall to enactment successful a ceremonial histrion planting astatine 2:50 p.m. connected the grounds of the Governor General's authoritative residence.

The archetypal time of the sojourn volition reason with a abbreviated reception for lieutenant-governors from each of the 10 Canadian provinces, and territorial commissioners from the 3 bluish territories. The King and Queen volition past conscionable with Carney and Simon before Camilla is sworn successful arsenic a subordinate of the King's Privy Council for Canada.

How to ticker the royal visit 

CBC News main analogous Adrienne Arsenault, on with royal historiographer Carolyn Harris, volition big unrecorded sum of the archetypal time of the royal visit. 

CBC News volition analyse the meaning down each symbolic infinitesimal arsenic King Charles makes his people here. That's connected Monday starting astatine 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT, 10:30 a.m. MT, 11:30 a.m. CT, 1:30 p.m. AT, 2 p.m. NT) connected CBC TV, CBC News Network and everyplace you watercourse CBC News: CBC Gem, CBCNews.ca, the CBC News app, YouTube transmission and connected your astute TV.

On Tuesday CBC News main governmental analogous Rosemary Barton, unneurotic with Power & Politics big David Cochrane, volition supply peculiar unrecorded sum of the throne code delivered by King Charles.

CBC News's sum begins astatine 9 a.m. ET (6 a.m. PT, 7 a.m. MT, 8 a.m. CT, 10 a.m. AT, 10:30 a.m. NT) connected CBC TV, CBC News Network and everyplace you watercourse CBC News: CBC Gem, CBCNews.ca, the CBC News app, YouTube channel, and connected your astute TV.

CBC Radio besides has unrecorded sum of the code from the throne. Tune successful astatine 11 a.m. ET connected Tuesday connected CBC Radio, CBC Listen, Sirius and the CBC quality app.