King Charles III will not travel to next month's United Nations climate summit in Egypt, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Sunday, after UK Prime Minister Liz Truss reportedly "objected" to the keen environmentalist attending.
King Charles III had intended to deliver a speech to world leaders gathering at the COP27 summit on November 6-18, the Sunday Times reported. REUTERS/ Henry Nicholls/ File photo
But the plan has been axed after Truss—who was appointed prime minister by the late queen just two days before the latter died—opposed it during a personal audience with Charles at the palace last month, the newspaper said. "With mutual friendship and respect there was agreement that the king would not attend," it told the BBC.
The newspaper said she is unlikely to attend COP27—the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. However, Tory MP Tobias Ellwood urged a rethink over the monarch's non-participation in Egypt, tweeting he hoped "common sense will prevail.""His attendance would add serious authority to the British delegation. Can we really go from hosting COP26 to benching soft power at COP27?"
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