No one should doubt the King’s diplomatic skills. After all, his address to a joint session of the US Congress in April was a charm-offensive masterclass at a time when the ‘special relationship’ looked anything but special following the Labour Government’s refusal to back the joint US-Israeli war.
Even so, spare a thought for Charles today when he opens the 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua. There’ll be plenty of talk about Britain’s links to the slave trade, along with calls for vast sums of money to be given out by way of reparation payments.
The Government, of which he
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