Antigua's prime minister wants King Charles removed as the nation's monarch and insists Britain must pay slavery reparations
The King and Queen at St John's Pentecostal Church House of Restoration in Antigua and Barbuda, as Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy insisted any apology must be a prelude to "concrete steps," squeezing Burnham from both flanks.The King and Queen at a church service in Antigua and Barbuda, where Andy Burnham's surprise declaration that he was "open" to a formal slavery apology put the King under constitutional pressure ahead of the Commonwealth summit.The King and Queen joined Antiguans and Barbudans for a church service marking the 45th anniversary of Independence and celebrating the Commonwealth.Kemi Badenoch branded the move a "navel-gazing distraction" that puts the King under constitutional pressurePrime Minister Andy Burnham with his wife, Marie-France van Heel, at a Diwali celebration at 10 Downing Street, as Kemi Badenoch warned his slavery-apology pivot would see Caribbean nations pocket any apology and immediately demand billions more.Suella Braverman, Reform's spokesperson, warned that Andy Burnham's apology pivot was "virtue signalling" and "dangerous," comparing it to "how the Chagos disaster started.
Gaston Browne, Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister, has personally called for King Charles III to be removed as the country's head of state, arguing that the monarchy's links to slavery make the relationship unsustainable. He also insists Britain must pay reparations for its part in the transatlantic slave trade. The remarks amount to one of the sharpest public challenges to Charles's role in the Caribbean Commonwealth.
Browne cast reparations not as charity but as a legal and moral debt owed by the UK.
The call adds fresh pressure on Buckingham Palace as Caribbean nations increasingly move to sever ties with the Crown.
