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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Bethanie Harriman

PNG minister apologises for calling daughter’s coronation critics ‘primitive animals’

Britain's Queen Camilla and King Charles III travel in the gold state coach after their coronation
Britain's Queen Camilla and King Charles III travel in the gold state coach after their coronation. Photograph: Sébastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images

Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister, Justin Tkatchenko, has apologised for calling people “primitive animals” after his daughter faced criticism for TikTok videos she made while accompanying him to London for King Charles’s coronation.

“I would like to personally apologise about my comments that were taken the completely wrong way and make known that these comments were solely directed to the individuals that made these disgusting and vile comments about my daughter,” Tkatchenko said in a statement.

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