Britain’s King Charles and his wife Camilla will be heading to Kenya for a state visit in the last days of this month, Buckingham Palace conveyed on Wednesday. They will be going for the third time since Charles got the opportunity to be the king following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth in September previous year. In March they headed to Germany, and previous month they headed to France for what was regarded as a wonderfully successful three-day visit by the new monarch. Their Oct. 31 to Nov.
3 visit to Kenya comes at the invitation of President William Ruto and ahead of the east African nation cherishing 60 years of sovereignty from Britain, Chris Fitzgerald, the king’s deputy private secretary, conveyed to reporters in a briefing. Kenya was where the late Elizabeth, whilst on a royal tour beside her husband Prince Philip in 1952, naturally happened to be Britain’s monarch when her father King George VI passed away in England. The trip will represent Charles’ fourth official visit to Kenya, where he will encounter Ruto, business executives, United Nations staff, faith governers and soldiers, Fitzgerald conveyed.
“The visit will also acknowledge the more sorrowful factors of the UK and Kenya’s shared history, which includes the Emergency (1952-1960),” he said , talking about the bloody Mau Mau revolt against British colonial rule in which thousands of Kenyans lost their precious lives. “His Majesty will take time during their going to increase his understanding of the wrongs suffered in this period by the people of Kenya”