King Charles has arrived in Guyana from the Bahamas to mark 60 years of British-Guyana relations during a solo state visit to the South American nation.
The King is making a nine-day tour of the Caribbean that will culminate in a Commonwealth leaders summit hosted by Antigua and Barbuda, presided over by the King and joined by the Queen in his role as head of the “family of Nations”.
Arrival and welcome in Guyana
Charles will be formally welcomed to Guyana by the country’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Britain’s High Commissioner to the country, Joseph Fisher, and Ed Miliband, who is joining the King on the state visit in his role as Foreign Secretary.
The president and the King will hold talks before Guyana’s leader hosts a state reception for the King in the garden of state house, his official residence in the capital Georgetown.
Caribbean tour and slavery legacy
The King arrives in the former British colony from the Bahamas, where he spent a busy two days. A few hours after arriving in the Bahamas on Tuesday, he acknowledged the “great suffering of the past” and confirmed the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting would discuss the legacy of slavery at the gathering next week.
The tour comes in the wake of renewed calls from Caribbean nations for Britain to apologise for its role in selling enslaved people for profit, and for reparations.
