Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg led King Charles III on his tour of the city’s Sept. 11 terrorist attack memorial grounds as current Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended the event in the background.

Mamdani, a socialist, has distanced himself from the British monarch over the mayor’s own anti-imperialist views, bashing the monarchy for its treatment of its colonists and the Irish in recent weeks. Charles’s trip to the Big Apple had tensions running high as the city guessed whether the two leaders with vastly different ideologies would meet in person, and they did.