Will the King apologise for slavery in St. John's?

King Charles is in St. John's, the final stop of a nine-day tour through the Caribbean and South America. He is there for the Commonwealth heads-of-government gathering, where he speaks on Tuesday, the third of November.

Caribbean states want Britain to answer for the transatlantic slave trade and pay reparations. Il Fatto Quotidiano reports the islands put the damages claim at 18 trillion pounds or more. According to the palace, the King will speak about the lasting suffering caused by the slave trade but will not formally apologise for it.

The answer will come in the speech itself, at the heads-of-government gathering in St. John's, where Caribbean states have pressed Britain for years.