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Barbados: Prince Charles in Barbados for Republic Celebration on November 30. 2021

11/30/2021 – 12:03 am

Britain's Prince Charles stands with Barbados' President-elect Sandra Mason during a Guard of Honour and playing of national anthems, as he arrives at Grantley Adams Airport, to take park in events to mark the Caribbean island's transition to a birth of a new republic, Bridgetown, Barbados, November 28, 2021. / REUTERS/Toby Melville

Britain’s Prince Charles stands with Barbados’ President-elect Sandra Mason during a Guard of Honour and playing of national anthems, as he arrives at Grantley Adams Airport, to take park in events to mark the Caribbean island’s transition to a birth of a new republic, Bridgetown, Barbados, November 28, 2021. / REUTERS/Toby Melville

BRIDGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles flew to Barbados as the Caribbean nation prepared for a celebration today marking the founding of a republic and the removal of the queen as sovereign, cutting imperial ties some 400 years after English ships first arrived.

Barbados won independence from Britain in 1966 but has retained Queen Elizabeth as its official sovereign. She will be replaced with a Barbadian president in an inauguration ceremony to be held when the country celebrates independence on Tuesday November 30, 2021.            Continue reading →

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