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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Cormac Pearson

Commonwealth representatives ask for reparations and apology ahead of coronation

PA Wire

Representatives from 12 Commonwealth countries have joined forces to call on the King to acknowledge and apologise for the impacts and ongoing legacy from British “genocide and colonisation”.

The statement, which has been sent to Charles, calls on Britain’s new monarch to act on the royal family’s recent expressions of sorrow by beginning a process for reparations and returning stolen artifacts and bodily remains.

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