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King Charles III expresses 'deepest regret', stops short of an apology

King Charles III views a painting of Treetops Hotel, Nyeri, at State House on October 31, 2023. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Britain's King Charles III fell short of apologising for his nation's dark colonial history, expressing his "greatest sorrow and deepest regrets", a more cautious approach that the United Kingdom has adopted over the years.

At a State Banquet in his honour last evening, the King termed atrocities of the colonial government against Kenyan freedom fighters "abhorrent and unjustifiable", saying he aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the colonial government's wrongs.

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