HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC -Britain King Charles 111, will pay a visit to Bermuda in April, Governor Andrew Murdoch announced on Tuesday. The exact date of the visit has not been disclosed, but it will be the first sovereign visit to Bermuda in 16 years and King Charles’s first visit to a British Overseas Territory since his Coronation on May 6, 2023.
“The visit is an opportunity to celebrate the many contributions Bermudians make in their communities, the wider British family in Bermuda and around the world. It will also strengthen the UK’s modern partnership with Bermuda, deepening the cultural, economic, and societal ties between us,” Murdoch said in a statement, adding that “further details of the visit at the end of April will be announced in due course”.
King Charles’s last official visit to Bermuda was in 1970, to read the Speech from the Throne, officially opening the 350th year of parliamentary government in Bermuda.
The last visit by a Sovereign to the island was in 2009, when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited Bermuda to join celebrations of the 400th anniversary of settlement. Bermuda was the final Overseas Territory visited by Queen Elizabeth during her reign.
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