King Charles photo with Caribbean officials under portrait of slavery-enriched monarch sparks criticism

Campaigners for slavery reparations and scholars have criticised the British monarchy after King Charles posed with Caribbean officials at a London reception beneath a portrait of George IV, who profited from enslaved labour on plantations in Grenada.

Charles hosted on March 10 several Caribbean representatives at St. James’s Palace for the annual Commonwealth Day reception, attended by, among others, the foreign ministers of Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Grenada’s high commissioner to Britain...