Enda Brady: Charles did his job well this week, but will it be enough to sate Trump?

This will go down in history as the UK’s honest attempt to make friends with Trump’s America

Queen Camilla, king Charles, US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump outside the White House in Washington DC for a state dinner last Tuesday. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA

This was a week when the UK needed its monarch to step up and push back against Trump’s America. King Charles did so, in his own way, and there couldn’t have been a more perfect response to some of the insults hurled across the Atlantic recently.

There had even been suggestions that the three-day state visit wouldn’t go ahead after the attempted shooting at that reception for journalists at the weekend.