India, May 3 -- Not everything that royalty deigns to indulge in can be described as epochal or even regal or lofty. Being human necessitates the performance of several acts that are innately nondescript. However, the speech of King Charles III at a joint session of the US Congress marked only the second such opportunity for a British monarch (since 1991 when Queen Elizabeth II addressed the assemblage at the same hallowed portals), and his very presence proved magnificent.

In many ways, Charles stole the show from his mother, and probably over everyone else who's ever addressed the US Congress. The King was impactful, erudite, dignified, charming, witty and statesmanlike during his historic address. What came as a pleasant surprise to o...