“In the Treaty we signed in 1800, our predecessors hoped that the friendship between our two states would remain ‘unshook till the end of time’.”It was an ambitious promise but, more than two hundred years later, it has proved to be a promise fulfilled by the living connections between Britain and Oman, embodied in the generations of relationships that have forged an unshakable friendship between us.”The King also praised Oman’s diplomatic role in Middle Eastern stability, saying: “Oman’s role across the Gulf and her ‘constructive neutrality’, as you put it, matters far beyond Hormuz, and is worthy of our utmost respect.”