Prince Charles is expected to address Commonwealth countries that want to sever ties with the Royal Family | World News
The Prince of Wales is expected to address the controversial issue of other Commonwealth countries severing ties with the Royal Family in his opening remarks to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. commonwealth (CHOGM) in Rwanda.
At the official ceremonial event in Kigali, where the leadership CHOGM meetings officially began, it was expected that the prince would say: “The commonwealth is composed of countries that have constitutional relations with the family. I, some continue to do so, and more and more ones have not.
“I would like to make it clear, as I have said before, that the constitutional arrangement of each member, republic or monarchy, is entirely up to each member state to decide.
“The benefit of long life gives me the experience that arrangements like this can be changed, calmly and without emotion.”
previous November Prince Charles visited Barbados on behalf of the Queen to witness The Caribbean island becomes a republic.
He is expected to talk about that experience and use it to emphasize the importance of Federal family, said: “As I said in Barbados last November, let us never forget the things that have not changed: the close and trusted partnership between the members of the Commonwealth; our shared values and common goals; and perhaps most importantly, the strong and enduring connection between the peoples of the Commonwealth that strengthens us all.”
It is the first meeting of heads of government the Prince of Wales has attended since it was confirmed in 2018 that he would automatically follow the Queen as head of the Commonwealth.
In the past, the palace has said that the Royal Family believes that a country’s people should decide its future. Both the Queen and Prince Charles have made that point in speeches before.
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But the prince’s speech to representatives of all 54 Commonwealth countries was certainly a response to the growing debate witnessed by royals during their overseas tours, The most prominent was the call to become a republic in Jamaica during the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s tour.
Fifteen countries including the United Kingdom hold the Queen as head of state and are known as the Commonwealth of Nations.
Later today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will have a cup of tea with Prince Charles.
Yesterday, Mr Johnson said he would speak to the prince about the government’s new immigration policy in sending migrants to Rwanda, following stated that the prince personally criticized the idea.
But late yesterday, both Number 10 and the palace appeared to have spoken about the meeting, both of which said migration policy was unlikely to be discussed.
Instead, the topics on the agenda were sustainability, youth, the history and values of the Commonwealth and Charles’ passion for it.
