Why Biden can't go to the Charles and Camilla coronation

I thought it was a bit odd that Joe Biden had declined to come to the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camillla and then I remembered something which was directed at me every year on August 24 when I was Pentagon correspondent and working from the world's biggest office building. "You British," I was reminded at each anniversary, "sacked Washington and burned down the White House." August 24, 1814, during the colonial war between Britain and the United States. The Capitol and the Library of Congress were also burned down. The Brits and Yanks may enjoy a special relationship but dang! do they remember what we did to their capital in 1814! So it was quite appropriate that Biden should not come to Charles's coronation. Instead he is sending his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, and also John Kerry, the tallest man in the Biden administration. American presidents historically don't do British coronations. Eisenhower didn't go to Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, and there was never any question of Biden going to Charles's. It all goes back to the sacking of the White House! Long memories.