Daniela Relph

Hi, Adam.

Yes, I am in downtown Manhattan.

I am standing at the 9-11 memorial here, which is a really, really moving, somber place to be, waiting for the arrival of the King and Queen, who will be here shortly for their first engagement in New York.

So a different tone and a different mood to events today.

Yeah, that's what I'm actually just looking down into it now.

It's like, I mean, it's a sort of bit like how you would imagine a reservoir.

It's rather beautiful.

It's sort of all the water pouring into this central point with the names of those almost 3,000 people who died engraved all around the entire memorial.

And the King and Queen are coming here.

They will lay a wreath here.

It is this year, 25 years since the 9-11 attacks.

So they will also be meeting some of the families who lost loved ones and some of the emergency workers who worked that day.

So they'll be spending some time here, as well as meeting local politicians, including the city's Democratic Mayor, Zoran Mamdani.

I think they're feeling quite pleased with themselves, to be honest.

Looking at the expression on some of the Palace team's faces during the delivery of the Congress speech yesterday, I think they were pretty pleased with how it has landed and how the King delivered some of those points that you mentioned.

I mean, there is no question in my mind, and you know, like James and I have sat in on a lot of the King's speeches,

And sometimes he can get sort of a bit wordy and a bit lost in the anecdote or the historical reference or the literary quote or whatever it is.

It can be a little bit dense and a bit hard to kind of pick apart and get to.

I mean, that really wasn't the case yesterday.

I thought actually the way he stood and delivered the speech was really interesting.