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King Charles Refuses Slave-Trade Apology Despite Ghana Urging

By Drooid · Oct 22, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC · How we work

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Ghanaian foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey urged King Charles to apologise for Britain’s slave-trade role.
The King will speak in the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda on his Caribbean tour, without apologising.
Buckingham Palace said the King feels personal sorrow for the slave-trade suffering but will not apologise.
A Jamaican delegation filed a London petition for reparations, the first Commonwealth state to use that route.

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Ghanaian foreign minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey urged King Charles to apologise for Britain’s slave-trade role.
The King will speak in the Bahamas, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda on his Caribbean tour, without apologising.
Buckingham Palace said the King feels personal sorrow for the slave-trade suffering but will not apologise.
A Jamaican delegation filed a London petition for reparations, the first Commonwealth state to use that route.