Article continues below advertisementKing Charles's arrival in Washington, D.C., is unfolding as a carefully choreographed moment of diplomacy, optics and royal pressure.Touching down alongside Queen Camilla for his first U.S. state visit as monarch, Charles steps into a charged political landscape, with tensions over global conflicts, domestic controversy in the U.K., and renewed scrutiny tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal all swirling in the background.