Derek Mooney

We have so much in common.

And he then hinged NATO, Ukraine on those points.

And that's very, very expertly done.

In terms of how it was crafted and it was written, absolutely expertly done.

And it's also, again, which is any speech is normally delivered for the audience in front of a privacy when you've been televised.

But the people around Charles and people in the foreign Commonwealth office, people in Washington also recognize that he had an audience back home.

that British people didn't want to see Charles go there and just be fawning.

They wanted him to deliver a tough message in a subtle way.

Well, that's the blessings of Google and other bits and pieces.

I'm sure somebody was sent down to the Imperial War Museum to find some connection.

But again, this is the skill of particularly diplomats

No doubt that people in Washington were saying, look, we've got to play to this man's ego.

We love the ego.

And to a certain degree, even Micheál Martin, when he was there a couple of weeks, a couple of months ago, managed just to just to softly get things in there and recognize that you talk to Trump about how admired he is and how great he is.

And the king did this in the way just by sending this bell and.

In terms of percentages, it's hard to tell.

In any speech, the key to the speech is who had the first draft of it, who came up with the first line.

And I suspect that came from the palace itself.

So I suspect that came from people close to Charles, private secretary, the team that he'd have in Buckingham Palace.

And we're dead to believe that he himself plays a big part in this.