King Charles has met every U.S. president at least once since he was a young lad of 10 and Dwight D. Eisenhower visited his mum (that's the late Queen Elizabeth II to the rest of us). More recently, Charles politely stroked Donald Trump's ego during his September 2025 visit to the U.K ., but he might actually have preferred to be chatting up the president's treasury secretary. Odd as it may seem, the king has been quite close to Scott Bessent since 1990, through a rather fortunate family connection. While attending a conference in South Carolina, the then-Prince of Wales stayed at the historic Roper House in Charleston, which was owned by Bessent's cousin Richard Jenrette. He introduced his cousin to the royal, and so began a fast friendship that endures to this day.

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