When Prince Charles touched down on Rwanda’s red soil last night, he became the first member of the Royal Family ever to do so.
Yet, although it is his first visit to the land of a thousand hills, he and the beautiful country have become awkwardly interlinked in recent weeks.
His reported criticism of the British Government’s contested scheme to fly migrants there as “appalling”, now delayed by a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, sparked a constitutional row.