Equality campaigners say remarks made as Barbados became a republic are ‘start of a grown-up conversation’
The Prince of Wales’s acknowledgment of the “appalling atrocity of slavery” which “forever stains our history” as Barbados became a republic was brave, historic, and the start of a “grown-up conversation led by a future king”, equality campaigners have said.
Uttering words his mother, the Queen, would be constitutionally constrained from saying, Prince Charles’s speech, at the ceremony to replace the monarch as head of state in the island nation, did not demur from reflecting on the “darkest days of our past” as he looked to a bright future for Barbadians.
