Biden arrived at Stansted Airport for meetings with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III on Monday.
King Charles “will receive President Biden at the dais in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle,” a Buckingham palace statement said.
The King and President Biden “will join participants of the Climate Finance Mobilisation Forum, which will have taken place earlier in the day,” according to the statement.
Biden will meet with Sunak at Downing Street.
President Biden will travel to Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday night to attend the NATO leaders’ summit which will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday and then go to Finland.
While in the UK, Mr Biden will also meet King Charles for the first time since the King was crowned.
Members of Nato – a military alliance of 31 Western nations – will then meet in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday. Boosting ammunition stockpiles and reviewing defence plans will be on the agenda.
Finland will attend its first summit since joining in April, and plans from Sweden to follow suit have been blocked by Turkey, which accuses it of harbouring terrorists. Mr Biden is expected to seek support from Mr Sunak to help broker a deal with Turkey.
Ukraine harbours its own ambitions of joining Nato. But speaking to CNN before his trip, Mr Biden said this could not happen until the war was over – in line with the alliance’s long-standing policy.
Citing Nato’s mutual defence pact, Mr Biden pointed out that members undertake to protect “every inch” of each other’s territory – meaning that “if the war is going on, then we’re all in war”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously accepted this position, while requesting a “signal” that his country will be able to join the alliance when the war is over. He is expected to attend this week’s summit.
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