'Shameful chapter': King Charles stops short of slavery apology in Commonwealth speech
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King Charles addressed country leaders at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting, calling the transatlantic slave trade a 'shameful chapter of history … that fills my heart with horror and my soul with the most profound personal sorrow'.
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Speaking in Antigua and Barbuda, the king said the slave trade 'still casts a shadow over these islands and other members of our Commonwealth', but his remarks stopped short of an apology. Charles spoke just days after the British prime minister, Andy Burnham, said he was open to making a formal apology, although he has rejected calls for the UK to pay reparations
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