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The British Embassy in Washington wins the ‘Best Fourth of July Tweet’ award again – and it’s as delightfully snarky as it should be

Oonagh Keating. Updated July 4th, 2025

The Fourth of July is American Independence Day, celebrating the ratification of the Declaration of Independence which created the nation of The United States. It’s a federal holiday, celebrated with fireworks, food and family across all 50 states.

However, in Washington’s British Embassy, it’s not such a straightforward celebration, seeing as the independence gained was from the rule of the British crown.

For that reason, the embassy’s social media team created its own tradition of tweeting jokes about it all – something they might no longer get away with, under the Orange Fuehrer’s new anti-democracy regime.

And this year, they broke out that transatlantic ice-breaker – the Beckhams.

This is what tweeters thought of it.

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We can’t swear this was a joke.

If the special relationship is at all strained, this might be a way to fix it.

Before any fresh hostilities break out, the joke tweet is always followed by heartfelt good wishes – like this.

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