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Russell Myers in St John’s, Canada

Prince Charles and Camilla's sorrow over Canadian church schools abuse horrors

Prince Charles has called on communities to come together and deal with “the darker aspects of the past”, amid calls for the Queen to apologise for the brutal treatment of indigenous children at Canadian residential schools at the hands of the Anglican church.

On the first day of his royal tour with the Duchess of Cornwall, the heir said the process “starts with listening”.

A scandal involving the removal of children from their communities before placing them into national schools raged from the late 19th Century until 1996.

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