26. Washingon

William travels to Washington for an official visit, the kind of trip that the language of the special relationship describes as warm and substantive and that generates photographs the press will call politely adequate. Everyone remembers how Charles's American visit went. William is aware they remember. He does everything correctly and produces nothing memorable. That evening, alone in his hotel at a time when it is two in the morning in London, he calls Catherine and says something he has not said out loud to anyone.

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