King Charles to visit The Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua around Commonwealth summit
Buckingham Palace says the trip, beginning on October 27, will include celebrations of 60 years of diplomatic relations between Britain and Guyana.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana. King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit the Caribbean in a trip that coincides with the Commonwealth heads of government summit in Antigua in November, Buckingham Palace announced on Wednesday.
The announcement gives a major boost to Antigua's preparations for the meeting, which runs from November 1 to 4.
The royal couple will first visit The Bahamas, where they will meet senior officials, before flying south to Guyana. There the King will take part in celebrations marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between Britain and Guyana, which gained independence from Britain in May 1966.
The trip begins on October 27. It will be his first visit to all three nations as the British monarch.
Earlier visits
The King attended the previous Commonwealth summit in Apia, Samoa, in October 2024.
He also spent three days in Bermuda in late April and May this year, where, among other things, he inspected iron chains and other artefacts of the transatlantic slave trade, including neck chains worn by captured Africans.
Bermuda is one of several British territories in the region, along with the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Anguilla, all non-voting associate members of the 15-nation Caribbean Community.
Before that, as Prince Charles, he was in Barbados in late November 2021 when the island became a republic.
The question of reparations
During that visit he spoke about Britain's role in the slave trade, saying it "forever stains our history" and describing "the appalling atrocity of slavery".
It is not clear whether the subject will come up again. Regional leaders had pushed for slavery and reparations to be placed on the agenda at the Samoa summit, in the face of strong resistance from the British delegation.
