(22 Jun 2022)
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Kigali - 22 June 2022
1. Various of Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall arriving at the Kigali Genocide Memorial and being greeted by officials
2. Various of Charles and Camilla standing before an honour guard, laying a wreath and lighting of a flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial
3. Various of Charles and Camilla speaking with survivors of genocide
4. Various of Charles and Camilla touring the Kigali Genocide Memorial
5. Mid of lettering on wall reading (English) "Kigali Genocide Memorial"
STORYLINE:
Prince Charles on Wednesday met with survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide, laid a wreath and lit the flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, were also due to visit a church where the remains of tens of thousands of genocide victims are buried.
Charles is in Rwanda representing Queen Elizabeth II as the ceremonial head of the Commonwealth at a summit where both the 54-nation bloc and the monarchy face uncertainty.
He has become the first British royal to visit Rwanda which joined the Commonwealth in 2009 after ties with former benefactor France frayed over alleged responsibility for the genocide.
This week's summit in Rwanda will tackle challenges such as climate change and how to wrestle millions out of poverty.
Charles was officially designated to be the queen's successor as the Commonwealth's ceremonial head in 2018, while some suggested a non-royal leader would give the Commonwealth a modern profile.
He is standing in for the 96-year-old queen at the bloc's summit for the second time, first doing so in Sri Lanka in 2013, seen as preparation for his future role as monarch.
While the queen is widely respected at home and abroad, Charles' relationship with the public is more complex.
Days before he flew to Rwanda, the Times of London newspaper reported that he had called a British government plan to send asylum-seekers who arrive in the U.K. to Rwanda "appalling."
The anonymously sourced report was widely seen as an attempt to distance himself from the contentious - and, critics say, illegal - policy, which threatens to overshadow his visit. Legal challenges stopped a flight that would have brought the first group of asylum-seekers just days before the summit.
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