King Charles shows signs of fear as he meets with Donald Trump at White House

King Charles showed signs of fear and unease during his official welcome at the White House alongside Queen Camilla.

The royal couple, who were received by Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the start of their four-day state visit, exchanged greetings, but an expert claimed the King showed signs of distraction and unease.

Speaking with The Mirror, body language expert Bruce Durham suggested the monarch may have been affected by recent security concerns in Washington, DC.

“What’s really interesting here is there’s a deviation in King Charles ’s behaviour," the expert noted. "King Charles is ingrained in, conditioned in, and brought up in formal displays of royal behaviour."

"Protocol, etiquette — call it what you want. It has been King Charles’s full life of how to behave, how to act, when to speak, and when to be silent.

“What we see here is that Charles, on a number of occasions, is showing signs of not being fully focused on the task at hand. Just after he arrives, what you see is what we call the tortoise effect."

He continued, "Now, Charles has been in thousands of engagements like this. He knows what to do. He knows where to stand. He would have been briefed by his staff. Yet when Camilla comes across to engage and greet Donald Trump, Charles puts his head down.

“This is the tortoise effect. This is exactly what we do when we have either fear, doubt, or a lack of self-confidence. There is no reason for Charles to put his head down. He has been in this engagement many times before.

"What this is, is an activation of what we call the sympathetic nervous system—the amygdala, the fight-or-flight response firing. In that particular moment, Charles is physically present, but his mind is absent somewhere else.”