Photo by Suzanne Plunkett / Pool / AFP via Getty Images It was strange to watch the mightiest people in Washington DC shuffle around the lawn at the British embassy. Suddenly, these powerbrokers, militarist poachers of other countries’ heads of state, all the sundry warmongers and ideologues appeared… weak. They darted, pushed and strained in order to enter the regal orbit. We were told not to film with our phones, only for everyone to then hold their cameras in the air. King Charles, frail, wide-eyed but jolly, moved through the masses like a pope offering benediction. He was there to mark 250 years since America’s independence from Britain, or what Gore Vidal once called the “war of separation” because “revolution is much too strong a word for that confused and confusing operation”. The House Speaker, Mike Johnson, Senator Ted Cruz and Trump aide Stephen Miller made the trip up Massachusetts Avenue. Luminaries were left waiting in a military-attaché-enforced line for 45 minutes without complaint.…