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King's State House banquet and absent aspiring Mount Kenya kingpin

DP Rigathi Gachagua meets King Charles III at the Mtongwe Naval Base in Likoni, Mombasa, on November 2, 2023. [FB, Rigathi Gachagua]

King Charles III's official visit to Kenya was memorable in several ways. It was the king's first official visit outside Europe and the first in Britain's vast former 'empire' where the sun had problems setting.

It started setting when white 'colonists' in North America refused to pledge loyalty to England. The visit also attracted positive attention to King Charles to Kenya's President William Ruto, a man who would not mind kingly attributes.

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