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Oct

2023

Dispossessed Kenyans demand compensation ahead of King Charles’ visit

WHEN the then-Princess Elizabeth visited Kenya in 1952, Kibore Cheruiyot Ngasura was among a group of young men chosen to sing for her at an event near Lake Victoria. The men planned to use the occasion to petition Elizabeth to relocate their parents from a detention camp in the barren, mosquito-infested town of Gwassi, where members of the Talai clan had been held for nearly two decades on suspicion of fomenting resistance to British colonial rule. The event never happened. Before Elizabeth could make it to Lake Victoria, word came that her father, King George VI, had died. The new…

Oct

2023

By The African Mirror

Britain’s King Charles to acknowledge ‘painful’ past in state visit to Kenya

NEWS

Britain's King Charles and his wife Camilla will travel to Kenya for a four-day state visit at the end of this month where he will acknowledge "painful aspects" of its colonial past, Buckingham Palace said. It will be the third foreign trip by the royals since Charles became king following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth in September last year, and their first to a nation in the Commonwealth, the voluntary association which he also heads. The destination is particularly symbolic for Charles as his late mother was in Kenya on a royal tour with her husband Prince Philip…

May

2023

By The African Mirror

King Charles gives ‘heartfelt’ thanks as coronation celebrations end

WORLD

ALISTAIR SMOUT KING Charles gave "sincere and heartfelt" thanks to everyone involved in his coronation weekend and said he and his wife Camilla would rededicate their lives to service as three days of celebrations drew to a close. Amid pomp and pageantry, Charles and Camilla were crowned at London's Westminster Abbey on Saturday in Britain's biggest ceremonial event in 70 years. In an echo of his late mother Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee message last June, before she died three months later, Charles and Camilla reiterated their pledge to serve. "As the Coronation weekend draws to a close, my wife and I just wanted to share…

May

2023

By The African Mirror

From ‘Rottweiler’ to queen – the reinvention of King Charles’ wife Camilla

WORLD

MICHAEL HOLDEN and SARAH MILLS AFTER years of being depicted as the most hated woman in Britain, Camilla, the second wife of King Charles, will be crowned queen on Saturday, capping a remarkable turnaround in public acceptance few would have thought possible. When Charles' divorced first wife, the popular, glamorous Princess Diana, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Camilla bore the brunt of media hostility. Some declared the couple could never wed. But marry they did eight years later, and since then she has come to be recognised, albeit still grudgingly by some, as a key member…

May

2023

By MICHAEL HOLDEN and SARAH MILLS

King Charles settles into life as monarch, after long wait

WORLD

AFTER waiting longer than any British heir to become monarch, King Charles has quietly settled into his new role with little of the drama some commentators had expected, but with family divisions and some fundamental issues still looming. The 74-year-old Charles, who will be formally crowned on Saturday, was the oldest sovereign to take the throne in a lineage that dates back 1,000 years when he succeeded his hugely popular mother Queen Elizabeth after her death last September. She had reigned for 70 years. Since then, while the new king has given glimpses of future changes to the institution, the man who was known…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Prince Harry says UK royals got into bed with tabloid press ‘devil’

WORLD

MICHAEL HOLDEN PRINCE Harry has said he had made public his rifts with the British royal family and taken on the press to try to help the monarchy and change the media, the latter described by his father King Charles as a "suicide mission". In the first of a series of TV interviews broadcast on Sunday ahead of the launch of his memoir, Harry accused members of his family of getting into bed with the devil - the tabloid press - to sully him and his wife Meghan to improve their own reputations. He told Britain's ITV he had fled Britain with…

Jan

2023

By The African Mirror

Prince Harry’s memoir sheds light on bust-ups among British royals

WORLD

MICHAEL HOLDEN and CHARLIE DEVEREUX BRITAIN'S Prince Harry says his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor during a 2019 argument over Harry's American wife Meghan in his much-awaited memoir which went on sale days early in Spain. In his book "Spare", Harry also discloses how the brothers, the sons of King Charles, had begged their father not to marry his second wife Camilla, now Queen Consort, and that he had taken cocaine as a teenager. The book was due to be published on Jan. 10, but the Guardian newspaper printed leaked extracts overnight, and…

Dec

2022

By The African Mirror

Rishi Sunak says racism must be confronted after Buckingham Palace aide controversy

WORLD

BRITISH Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that the country had made progress in tackling racism but that it was "never done" and must still be confronted, following a controversy involving Prince William's godmother. Ngozi Fulani, who was born in Britain and works for a domestic abuse support group, wrote on Twitter that the royal aide had repeatedly asked her: "What part of Africa are you from?" when she attended an event hosted by King Charles wife Camilla, the queen consort, on Tuesday. British media identified the royal aide as Lady Susan Hussey, the 83-year-old godmother of King Charles's son and…