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King Charles III reached out to Donald Trump after the assassination attempt on the former president’s life over the weekend.
The monarch, 75, wrote a private letter to Trump, 78, that was delivered Sunday via the United Kingdom’s embassy in Washington, DC, Buckingham Palace confirmed to The Post.
The palace did not provide details about the contents of the message.
Sources told the Daily Beast that Charles’ letter was “in keeping” with the sentiments expressed by Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
He reacted to the shooting at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on Saturday by posting: “I am appalled by the shocking scenes at President Trump’s rally and we send him and his family our best wishes.”
“Political violence in any form has no place in our societies and my thoughts are with all the victims of this attack,” Starmer, 61, added.
Trump was shot in the ear while he was speaking on stage at the Butler Farm Show grounds.
The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was perched on a roof about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking.
Crooks was shot and killed by Secret Service, sources told the Post.
Another rally-goer, 50-year-old former firefighter Corey Comperatore, was killed by Crooks. Two others, David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, were wounded.
Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview that had he not slightly moved his head when Crooks fired at him with an AR-15, he would’ve been killed. Instead, the shot tore off a small piece of Trump’s ear and splattered blood on his forehead and cheek.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” said Trump.
“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” he added. “I’m supposed to be dead.”
Trump is running against Joe Biden in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
He’s made many promises in the event he gets elected — including possibly deporting Charles’ youngest son, Prince Harry, who moved to California with his wife, Meghan Markle, in 2020.
In March, Trump was asked by GB News presenter Nigel Farage about the legal battle over Harry, 39, admitting he took illegal drugs (cocaine, cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms) in his memoir, “Spare.” Trump said the Duke of Sussex should not have “special privileges” if it’s discovered Harry lied on his application for a US visa.
“We’ll have to see if they know something about the drugs, and if he lied, they’ll have to take appropriate action,” Trump said.
When pressed on whether “appropriate action” might mean deportation, Trump responded: “Oh, I don’t know. You’ll have to tell me. You just have to tell me. You would have thought they would have known this a long time ago.”
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland in February, Trump criticized the Biden administration for being “too gracious” to the Sussexes ever since Harry and Markle fled to the US.
“I wouldn’t protect him. He betrayed the Queen. That’s unforgivable. He would be on his own if it was down to me,” the 45th president told the Daily Express newspaper.
Charles, who is estranged from Harry, has not commented on Trump possibly deporting his son.
Trump and the monarch have spent time together over the years. In 2019, Charles hosted the then-president and his wife, Melania Trump, for tea at Clarence House. That same year, the late Queen Elizabeth II hosted a state banquet for Trump when he was in the UK at the time.
In September 2022, Trump called the late queen a “beautiful lady” after she died at age 96.
“Queen Elizabeth’s historic and remarkable reign left a tremendous legacy of peace and prosperity for Great Britain. Her leadership and enduring diplomacy secured and advanced alliances with the United States and countries around the world,” he said in a statement at the time. “Melania and I will always cherish our time together with the Queen, and never forget Her Majesty’s generous friendship, great wisdom, and wonderful sense of humor. What a grand and beautiful lady she was—there was nobody like her!”