New Royal slave row
Edward and Sophie face protests in Caribbean
PRINCE Edward and his wife Sophie will be met with calls for slavery reparations on their tour of the Caribbean.
The visit got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Grenada leg was cancelled, allegedly at the behest of the island’s Government.
Officials complained the visit would last just eight hours, but cost taxpayers a lot. The royals will now visit Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Antigua and Barbuda to mark the Queen’s Jubilee.
The Antigua and Barbuda Reparations Support Commission will present them with an open letter demanding reparations for the slave trade. The commission’s Dorbrene O’Marde said there had been an “absence of an apology from the Crown”. Saint Lucia’s National Reparations Commission said “royal expressions of sorrow” over slavery did not go far enough and it would demand a full apology. Prince William and wife Kate’s recent trip to the Caribbean was judged a PR disaster.