{"id":1170560,"date":"2026-08-26T15:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170560\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:07:22","slug":"king-and-queen-to-visit-antigua-and-barbuda-during-autumn-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1170560\/","title":{"rendered":"King and Queen to visit Antigua and Barbuda during autumn tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/skynews-king-queen_7331902.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The King and Queen will undertake a royal visit to Antigua and Barbuda during an autumn tour, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"first\">Their visit to the Caribbean will coincide with their attendance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2026, which is being held in Antigua and Barbuda from 1-4 November.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charles<\/strong>, who is king of Antigua and Barbuda, is also the head of the Commonwealth, a club of more than 50 countries that evolved from the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Before the CHOGM meeting, the King will undertake a royal visit to The Bahamas &#8211; another nation where he is monarch &#8211; before a state visit to Guyana, marking 60 years of bilateral relations between the UK and Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will last between 27 October and 4 November and will &#8220;celebrate communities, cultures and nature within the Commonwealth family&#8221;, the palace said.<\/p>\n<p>The King last visited the Caribbean in 2021, when he <strong>formally acknowledged &#8220;the appalling atrocity of slavery&#8221;<\/strong> at an event marking Barbados becoming a republic.<\/p>\n<p>The then Prince of Wales had been invited to speak at the transition ceremony formalising the Caribbean island&#8217;s decision to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Meta agrees to pay to settle social media addiction trial<br \/>Two people die and woman critical after house fire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the King and Queen spent four days in the US during a <strong>historic state visit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first state visit to the US by a British monarch since 2007, when Queen Elizabeth II met George W Bush.<\/p>\n<p>This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/p>\n<p>You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the <strong>Sky News app<\/strong>. You can also <strong>follow us on WhatsApp<\/strong> and subscribe to our <strong>YouTube channel<\/strong> to keep up with the latest news.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/skynews_2018-small.png\" alt=\"Sky News\" style=\"width:85px;height:20px;vertical-align:middle;\"\/>\n                <\/p>\n<p>\n                (c) Sky News 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/king-and-queen-to-visit-antigua-and-barbuda-during-autumn-tour-13577408\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">King and Queen to visit Antigua and Barbuda during autumn tour<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and Queen will undertake a royal visit to Antigua and Barbuda during an autumn tour, Buckingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1170561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,257,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":["post-1170560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-102-5","tag-102-5-fm","tag-birmingham","tag-black-country","tag-brierley-hill","tag-britain","tag-dab","tag-dudley","tag-england","tag-fm","tag-great-britain","tag-halesowen","tag-london","tag-music","tag-news","tag-online","tag-radio","tag-sport","tag-stourbridge","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117162441416968599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1170561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}