King Charles joins Junkanoo dancers and shakes maracas at a carnival parade on the second day of his Bahamas tour
King Charles, who acknowledged "the great suffering and injustices of the past" during his Bahamas visit but stopped short of an apology, is on his first Caribbean tour as monarch.King Charles is on a nine-day Caribbean tour culminating in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua, where slavery's legacy will be formally discussed by Commonwealth leaders.King Charles (left) with Philip Davis, Prime Minister of the Bahamas, as the Bahamas National Reparations Committee said the King's remarks "fall short of what justice requires.King Charles arrives in Nassau to begin a Caribbean tour that will also be attended by Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
King Charles III threw himself into Nassau's Junkanoo street festival on the second day of his nine-day Caribbean tour, shaking maracas and joining dancers before holding talks with Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis and Governor General Dame Cynthia Pratt. Earlier, he laid a wreath at the Flamingo Monument to four RBDF Marines killed when Cuban MiG jets sank HMBS Flamingo in May 1980, meeting the families of the fallen: Fenrick Sturrup, Austin Smith, David Tucker and Edward Williams.
At the Bahamas Boxing Academy in Nassau, Charles was presented with a T-shirt depicting him as a muscle-bound boxing king, prompting the monarch to point and laugh, saying 'How generous.'
Protesters outside demanded Britain 'pay us what you owe us', with reparations pressure shadowing every stop on the tour.
The Junkanoo festival has its roots in enslaved Africans' cultural resistance — making Charles's enthusiastic participation the tour's most charged symbolic moment.
