https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/02/joe-biden-king-charles-coronation/?utm_source=reddit.comWhat a weak fucking excuse
"Hewing to precedent..."
My friend in jesus, there have only been 7 british coronations while America was a country, and only a single one since the end of WW2, and sure all of them only included guests who were either related european royalty thanks to that inbreeding, or representatives of the british empire. Not civilian heads of state of foreign governments, unless we count the prime minister of india just after partition which I'd say is a pretty exceptional circumstance. I guess the president of Nicaragua showed up. We sent secretaries of state and other officials sure, but you can't really call it a precedent when these events have been so wildly far removed in time and King Charles is inviting all those civilian heads of state this time.
Charles is explicitly overturning that precedent from coronations going back longer than the US was a country, and willing to invite 'crowned heads of state', something previously haraam, as well as civilian heads of state. He's even got the EU presidents after brexit and heads of countries like Japan. The king and queen of jordan and bhutan, crown prince bahrain and sultan of brunei and prince of kuwait and so on.
Point being, when Charles is going out of his way to overturn the royal precedent, how does Joe Biden get to cite that precedent as an excuse not to attend? They managed to shuffle Joe in a coffin filled with his native soil to Ukraine in the middle of the night. At least supposedly, unless they just brought Zelensky to a sound stage in the US, these -are- the same folks who brought us the White Helmets of syria lmao.