Moment King Charles almost falls over on artificial grass – before calmly putting on his sunglasses and carrying on
THIS is the moment King Charles almost fell over on artificial grass – before calmly putting on his sunglasses and carrying on.
The monarch took a tumble while visiting the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Kariokor cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya with Queen Camilla this morning.
He was being guided from one patch of artificial grass to another when his shoe snagged under one of them.
Queen Camilla reached out to grab hold of Charles, who balanced himself quickly.
The King then put his sunglasses on and calmly walked away.
During his visit to the cemetery, Charles said he felt the “greatest sorrow and deepest regret” about Britain’s “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence” in Kenya.
He added that there was “no excuse” for the British Empire’s “wrongdoings” during its repression of the Mau Mau rebellion.
Charles said: “It is the intimacy of our shared history that has brought our people together.
“However, we must also acknowledge the most painful times of our long and complex relationship.
“The wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret.
“There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged, as you said at the United Nations, a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty.
“For that, there can be no excuse.”
President William Ruto of Kenya praised Charles’s “exemplary courage” – but said that “much remains to be done in order to achieve full reparations”.
Ruto added that Britain had been “monstrous in its cruelty” during the period.
The Mau Mau rebellion was an uprising by the Kikuyu tribe which began shortly after Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953.
Kenya’s Human Rights Commission says 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed by British forces who crushed the rebellion.