Later this month, US President Joe Biden will travel to the UK and meet with King Charles and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
It follows Mr. Sunak’s trip to Washington, D.C., last month for meetings with Mr. Biden.
He declined the chance to throw the opening pitch at a baseball game when he was in town as well.
When they first met, the President addressed Rishi as “Mr. President,” which was a little awkward.
The President is scheduled to travel to the United Kingdom, Lithuania, and Finland from July 9-13.
He will first travel to London, for engagements with the King and Rishi ‘to further strengthen the close relationship between our nations,’ White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Buckingham Palace confirmed that the King will meet Mr Biden at Windsor Castle on July 10.Mr Biden made a brief trip to Northern Ireland earlier this year to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, meeting the Prime Minister for brief talks in Belfast.
The White House said that after visiting the UK Mr Biden would ‘then travel to Vilnius, Lithuania from July 11- 12 to attend the 74th Nato Summit’.
‘On July 13, President Biden will visit Helsinki, Finland for a US-Nordic Leaders Summit.’
The apparently short trip by Mr Biden comes after the US and the UK announced a new partnership, the ‘Atlantic Declaration’, to bolster economic security.
Announced during Mr Sunak’s visit to the White House, it included commitments on easing trade barriers, closer defence industry ties and a data protection deal.
While both sides used that Washington visit to hail the strength of US-UK ties, Mr Biden has not been afraid of occasionally criticising London.
Mr Biden in May claimed that he visited the island of Ireland earlier this year to ensure the ‘Brits didn’t screw around’, amid ongoing US concern about the impact of Brexit on the peace process.
During that visit, the President told the Irish parliament that he believed the UK should be working more closely with the administration in Dublin to support Northern Ireland.
Mr Biden and First Lady Jill Biden travelled to London for the funeral of the late Queen last September.
The US President did not attend the King’s coronation, with his wife attending instead.
Mr Sunak will also be attending the Nato summit in Vilnius, which is seen as a crunch summit at which a compromise on Ukraine’s demand for membership of the alliance is expected to be hammered out.