PM Andy Burnham blasted for treating private jet ‘like Uber’ to pick him up from Manchester on way to Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda
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Queen Camilla has joined King Charles on his Caribbean tour. The pair arrived together for an Anglican Church service at St John’s Pentecostal House of Restoration.
Watch King Charles at Commonwealth War Graves, in Guyana, meeting veteran Donald Grant, 99, who served in WWII with the RAF, and who says: “Is this the hand of the King? Is this the hand of the King? I can’t say much, but it’s all in my heart.”
King Charles reacts after knocking back a shot of special Royal Welcome blend of XM Rum here at state reception in Georgetown, in Guyana (know the feeling after a long day on tour tbf..)
New: Latest polls show Harry and Meghan’s popularity has gone down since they moved back to the UK. Meghan has her lowest recorded favourability to date on YouGov.
While 58% of Brits see King Charles positively, his favourability is also lowest since accession.
Real King Shady: King Charles dons sunglasses and suit as he joins partygoers for impromptu dance at street party in The Bahamas
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Charles became a dancing King as he threw himself into party mode and joined a colourful street festival. The bash, known as a Junkaroo, is traditional Bahamian street party with historic links to slavery.
King of the Ring: Charles watches young contenders put through their paces at the Bahamas Boxing Academy (but we need more information on these t-shirts…)
Charles has toured restoration at Bonefish Pond National Park in Bahamas and and planted silver buttonwood, also known as a silver mangrove - he bids it ‘good luck’ as he likes to do everytime he is asked to plant a tree or bush.
King Charles has begun his first full day of Caribbean tour at HMBS Coral Harbour with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. He laid a wreath for the four Bahamian Marines killed when a Cuban fighter jet sank HMBS Flamingo in May 1980.
The last time His Majesty King Charles visited The Bahamas, we were a newly independent nation, more than 50 years ago.
It fills me with great pride to welcome him back today.
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King Charles has spoken of the “great suffering” of the past but to “rejoice in the successes of the present” and “future” in first speech on Caribbean tour, starting here in The Bahamas at the site of its 1973 independence.