Category: King Charles III

UK makes huge aid cuts to Commonwealth nations despite warm words at Chogm summit

Nations in the group fare worse than others, with funding for nature projects especially hard hit even as climate crisis intensifies global needThe UK government has slashed overseas aid to Commonwealth countries, the Guardian...

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King tells Commonwealth leaders that Britain’s role in slave trade was ‘shameful’ but stops short of apology – as it happened

Speech by Charles marks formal opening of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in AntiguaQ: Do you think the UK should reconsider Commonwealth membership, given other countries just keep asking us for slavery...

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King tells Commonwealth leaders that Britain’s role in slave trade was ‘shameful’ but stops short of apology – UK politics live

Speech by Charles marks formal opening of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in AntiguaQ: Do you think the UK should reconsider Commonwealth membership, given other countries just keep asking us for slavery...

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Ex-Reform UK MP cleared after standards watchdog overruled over N-word rules breach – UK politics live

The Commons standards committee decided that James McMurdock will not be subject to further actionQ: Do you think the UK should reconsider Commonwealth membership, given other countries just keep asking us for slavery...

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Burnham says he has not proposed return to EU freedom of movement – UK politics live

The prime minister wants an ‘honest discussion’ about how immigration has changed since Brexit Good morning. In a Today programme interview broadcast this morning at 8.10am, Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, ended by saying...

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UK was ‘vehement’ slavery reparations should not be on Commonwealth summit agenda

British prime minister has now agreed to structured dialogue on reparatory justice but issue remains off formal Chogm agendaBritish officials initially insisted that discussions of reparations for slavery should not be on the...

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‘And you will be the People’s Earl’ – Charles Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, digested by John Crace

The earl on his globally lauded eulogy for Diana, King Charles’s sausage fingers and toxic Raine, topped off with a lavish sprinkling of adverbsCheers were heard up and down the land. Halley’s comet made an unscheduled...

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Earl Spencer SLATES the king. Charles DESTROYS Spencer. If only Diana were here to click on it | Marina Hyde

It’s a battle for hearts and minds – and TikTok, and the ’Gram. Just as it should be. #royalbeefReading the extracts from Earl Spencer’s book about his sister Diana, and the king’s two-footed takedown of it, it’s hard to escape...

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Charles’s rebuttal of Earl Spencer’s claim about Diana offers rare glimpse into palace thinking

From ‘there were three of us in this marriage’ to ‘recollections may vary’, a lot can be conveyed with a carefully worded phraseAs denials go, King Charles’s response to Earl Spencer’s allegations that Charles said after Diana’s...

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Memo to King Charles: you can’t stop the Sussexes’ reality show bandwagon. You only spice up the script | Marina Hyde

If the monarch thought his sniffy letter would put Harry and Meghan at a disadvantage, he doesn’t understand how the celebrity world worksOnce again, it has been a lively week for the Real Housewives of Windsor franchise, with...

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Bayeux tapestry loan symbolises ‘entente amicale’ between France and UK, says King Charles

Monarch tells Emmanuel Macron at the British Museum in London that the two nations will share a future ‘woven together’ by history and shared valuesThe loan of the Bayeux tapestry was the “the best possible symbol” of the...

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