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Charles has used his first Commonwealth state visit as monarch to speak of the "greatest sorrow" and "deepest regret" for the "wrongdoings" of the past.

Survivors of colonial-era abuses criticised the UK king’s failure to issue a full apology or propose reparations

Charles says he wishes to ‘deepen my own understanding of these wrongs’ during visit

Britain’s King Charles has begun a four-day visit to Kenya, his first trip to Africa since becoming king following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth, last year. Addressing aspects of Britain’s colonial past, issues related to the climate crisis, education and the importance of national security will top the monarch’s agenda. The royal visit…

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"The wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret. There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged - a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty, and for that, there can be no excuse..." King Charles III

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- King Charles III has expressed "greatest sorrow and the deepest regret" for the "abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence" committed against Kenyans as they sought independence, during a speech on his first day of a four-day visit. But he didnt explicity apologize for Britains actions in its former colony, as many Kenyans wanted.

The trip will mark Charles’s first visit to Kenya and the Commonwealth since he acceded to the throne last year

A Kenyan war veteran said to be 117 years old has been honoured by King Charles during his visit to the country on Wednesday, decades after the soldier had thro

King Charles III visited Kenya and stopped short of apologizing for the colonial abuse in the East African nation during the 1950s.