JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon hosted an extravagant party to celebrate King Charlesā 77th birthday on Thursday in the bankās shiny new Manhattan skyscraper.
It was an all-out birthday bash ā what Brits might call a bit of a āknees-upā ā complete with a huge projection of the Union Jack on the side of JPMorganās new $3 billion headquarters.
Though the king himself was not there, members of the British Consulate and celebrities like actor Brian Cox and former Prime Minister Tony Blair stopped by to cheer āLong live the kingā ā after first cheering for President Trump, according to The Wall Street Journal.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon hosted an extravagant party in honor of King Charlesā 77th birthday. REUTERS
Charles celebrated his birthday on Nov. 14 after a spate of health issues including a cancer diagnosis. The palace has not specified what kind of cancer the king has.
The event in the new Lord Norman Foster-designed building featured classic British nosh like Yorkshire pudding and beef pie with Stilton cheese, in a room decked out with photos of the royal family and former President Reagan and Trump, according to The Journal.
There were also tables with sushi and nigiri sushi for those adverse to British pub grub.
A photo of the Union Jack projected on the side of JPMorganās new headquarters in Manhattan. Reddit/GirlyPopTart
Members of Parliament and British nobles wearing kilts chatted with reality TV stars like Ubah Hassan from āThe Real Housewives of New York Cityā and Mary Holland Nader from āLove Thy Nader,ā The Journal reported.
The belated birthday party might have seemed unusual for a number of reasons ā not only was Charles thousands of miles away; the festivities took place in a country readying toĀ celebrate 250 years of independenceĀ from the Brits.Ā
But it wasnāt such an unexpected move for Dimon, who has been growing closer with British Prime Minister Keir Starmerās government and is friendly with French President Emmanuel Macron. He met the king during a global investment summit in the UK in 2023.
Dimon used the event to spread his goal of bringing the US and Europe closer together, warning of the dangers of a weakened trans-Atlantic alliance as he thanked the British for their help in countering Nazism.
āThereās a whiskey bar back there,ā he said on a less serious note to roughly 400 guests as he took to the stage. āThank God, mostly Scottish whiskey.ā
Varun Chandra, Starmerās special adviser on business and investment, made a speech that flopped with a string of āvery cringeworthy and overused Dad jokesā about the differences between Britain and the US, an attendee said.
Guests told The Post that Chandraās speech made passing references to how Britons pronounce āzā as āzedā and how Americans donāt really understand āfootballā ā what is known as soccer on this side of the Atlantic.
āNobody laughed. Everyone was just waiting for him to finish,ā said an insider who was among the 400 or so onlookers.
Dimon was surrounded all night by people angling to take photographs with the exec ā staying behind with a drink in hand for more than two hours after many JPMorgan execs had already left, according to The Journal.
A major history buff, Dimon nodded to JPMorganās British ties during his speech.
King Charles III celebrated his 77th birthday on Nov. 14. Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire / SplashNews.com
Founder J. Pierpont Morgan came from a family of English merchants, and his son, Jack Morgan, was good friends with King George VI ā Charlesā grandfather.
But representatives of the British Consulate didnāt skim over the eventās blatant irony.
āWeāre just about to begin the celebrations for 250 years of American independence from the British monarch, and here we stand in this temple of American freedom and prosperity to celebrate the birthday of the British monarch,ā Chandra said during his speech.
Back in the 1600s, King Charles II ousted the Dutch from New Amsterdam and gave the territory to his brother, the Duke of York ā renaming it New York in his honor.
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