King Charles III delivers a speech during the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.King Charles has waded into the row over calls for the UK to pay reparations for its involvement in the slave trade.In a speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHoGM) in Samoa, the monarch said he understood how “the most painful aspects of our past continue to resonate”.He said that “none of us can change the past” and called on the organisation to find “creative ways to right inequalities” from the past.The King’s comments came as Commonwealth leaders prepare to defy Keir Starmer by including a reference to the reparations debate in the summit’s final communique, due to be published on Saturday.Downing Street has insisted that the UK
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