The King is due to meet the president of Ukraine at Sandringham today.
Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to travel to the Norfolk estate to meet with King Charles III after a summit at Lancaster House, near Buckingham Palace in London.
The summit is being hosted by the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, and the leaders of 18 European countries will be in attendance.
Sir Keir hopes to the summit to encourage his peers to follow him in raising defence spending to 2.5pc of their countries' economic output by 2027.
It comes after a difficult few days in which the foundations of the transatlantic Nato alliance have been shaken.
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US president Donald Trump clashed with Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday, when Mr Trump claimed his counterpart was "gambling with world war three".
Mr Zelensky was kicked out of the White House and US media reports suggested Mr Trump was considering halting aid to Kyiv.
European leaders quickly showed solidarity with Ukraine and Sir Keir tried to keep the peace by speaking to both presidents over the phone.
The prime minister welcomed Mr Zelensky to Downing Street on Saturday, in a meeting the Ukrainian leader called “meaningful and warm”.
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