King Charles III should apologise for slavery and ‘the time has come’ for a discussion about reparations, the Commonwealth secretary-general has claimed.
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey said Commonwealth countries want the monarch to issue an apology for the transatlantic slave trade and him doing so ‘wouldn’t hurt’.
She said: ‘If you’re asking my personal view [on reparations], I believe the time has come for that conversation. It has come. And I don’t believe we can run away from it.
‘But it is important to determine the form that reparations should take, and that is something that will emerge eventually as countries sit around the
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