Welcome to Wednesday’s Washington Secrets. With the rest of the city’s press corps going gaga over the royal visitor, today we bring you not so much a “secret” as a rebuke hidden in plain sight. Plus, how Winston Churchill’s White House antics led to the purchase of Blair House so guests could stay across the street …

Charles Dickens might have titled it “A Tale of Two Georges,” King Charles III said as he opened his address to Congress, referencing the American Revolution with a joke about George Washington and George III.