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King Charles III called the transatlantic slave trade “a monstrous injustice” Tuesday, opening a Commonwealth summit in which U.K. leader Andy Burnham is holding talks about apologizing for Britain’s role in slavery.
King Charles told Commonwealth leaders on Tuesday his greater understanding of the horrors of slavery had made him more determined to address past wrongs, but they needed to look to the future and ensure “evil need not have the last word.”
King Charles flung up his hands in despair as he was caught in a tropical rainstorm in Antigua, while his wife Queen Camilla strolled off with the only available umbrella.
King Charles III will confront “shameful aspects” of U.K. history with “unflinching honesty” when he addresses Commonwealth leaders next week, Buckingham Palace said Saturday, amid renewed scrutiny of Britain’s role in historical transatlantic slavery.
British police said on Thursday they would refer allegations about the father of Meghan, Prince Harry’s wife, to overseas law enforcement agencies.
Police in Scotland have opened an investigation into the time the former Prince Andrew spent with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, at the king’s Balmoral estate, authorities said Friday.
King Charles III arrived Thursday in Guyana, a former British colony that was the site of one of the biggest slave revolts in the Caribbean during the colonial era.
As King Charles III tours the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda over the next nine days he will be repeatedly reminded that he is the inheritor of a throne that presided over the enslavement of millions of Africans who were shipped to the Caribbean and North America, where they worked for the profit of their owners and, ultimately, the British Empire.
King Charles III will begin a tour of the Caribbean on Tuesday as pressure mounts on Britain to apologize and pay reparations for its role in the slave trade.
The Sussexes were just settling into life back in Britain. Now a police investigation involving Thomas Markle Sr. has reopened old questions about a family estrangement, and about who was supposed to be protecting Meghan all along, writes royal commentator Afua Hagan.
Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, will star in the next series of Australia’s Junior MasterChef in 2027, returning to a franchise where she appeared as a guest judge on the adult version earlier this year.
The Royals are coming, and the Caribbean wants to be heard.
Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan, said Friday she was “deeply distressed” by allegations that a collection of child sexual abuse images had been found at her father’s former home. She also revealed that a letter containing “troubling allegations” about him had been sent to London police in 2018.
King Charles III led tributes Wednesday to the people of the Welsh village of Aberfan on the 60th anniversary of a coal slide onto a school that claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults.
Prince Harry has said he hoped to reconcile with King Charles and the rest of his family with whom he fell out when he moved to the United States six years ago.
After six years in the U.S., Harry and Meghan are back in Britain for an extended stay. They’ve closed the physical distance to the Royal Family. The emotional distance is proving much harder to cross, says royal commentator Afua Hagan.
