King reveals regret at not visiting Fiji on royal tour

The King has revealed his regret astatine not visiting Fiji connected his caller royal circuit of Australia and Samoa aft being advised against it for aesculapian reasons.

Charles spoke to the High Commissioner of Fiji during an planetary sustainability league astatine Buckingham Palace connected Wednesday.

I felt truthful atrocious we couldn’t get to Fiji (on the royal tour), the doctors wouldn’t fto me

King Charles III to Jovilisi Vulailai Suveinakama

He told Jovilisi Vulailai Suveinakama: “I felt truthful atrocious we couldn’t get to Fiji (on the royal tour), the doctors wouldn’t fto me.”

Charles visited the portion successful October but the circuit was pared down connected doctors’ proposal owed to the 75-year-old monarch’s caller crab diagnosis, with trips to New Zealand and Fiji removed from the plans.

The King welcomed concern leaders and clime organisations to Buckingham Palace for the event, including Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband and Environment Secretary Steve Reed.

The purpose of the talks was to summation enactment crossed clime issues earlier the extremity of negotiations connected the Global Plastics Treaty astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth and successful beforehand of the UN clime alteration league Cop29, which volition beryllium held successful Azerbaijan.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero hosted a speech connected cleanable energy, which included a treatment astir however to concern the modulation to renewable energy.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs besides led a treatment astir ending integrative pollution, which was hosted successful concern with the Ellen McCarther Foundation.Emma Hardy, curate for h2o and flooding, who hosted the integrative contamination talk, said: “The King is intelligibly precise passionate, some the integrative pact and his enactment are truly important arsenic we physique momentum successful the adjacent fewer weeks.”

Sophie Westlake, lawman manager for the government’s planetary vigor squad added: “There was a existent involvement successful the UK stepping up. It was astir trying to enactment retired who from financing is consenting and acceptable to spell connected that travel with us.

“The King is keen to promote and beryllium a portion of the ngo that we acceptable out.”