Listening to the coverage of King George’s state visit to London, I keep finding my teeth on edge as I hear the commentators use Britain and England interchangeably. Britain is a shorthand expression for Great Britain which is, in my view, outmoded, a reference to the days of Empire, when the sun never set on it . . . . historically, it includes Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, not all of which would have extended that invitation.
He is in *England*, of which London is the capitol.