‘Reparations now’: King and Burham face protests at Antigua Commonwealth summit

Activists see meeting as opportunity to demand UK confront role in transatlantic enslavement “The royal family enslaved us! Apologise now! Reparatory justice now!

” King Charles and the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, will be greeted with messages as they travel through Antigua’s capital, St John’s, to attend meetings at the Commonwealth leaders’ summit next week. On billboards, placards and T-shirts, in letters and at a candlelight vigil for the thousands of Africans…