King Charles III (74) and his wife, Queen Camilla (76), continued their four-day state visit to Kenya on November 1st. After King Charles declared during an official state banquet the evening before that there could be “no excuse” for the terrible crimes of British colonial rule, a number of engagements for the royal couple were on the royal calendar on Wednesday.
Charles’ wife, together with the British monarch, visited the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, founded in 1977 and known for its work to save orphaned elephants. On this occasion, Camilla, armed with boots, gave the bottle to a baby elephant. The Queen of England also met a baby rhino named Raha during her visit.
It wasn’t the only encounter with animals that was on Queen Camilla’s official calendar on Wednesday. According to People, she previously visited the Brooke Animal Sanctuary without her husband. There, the 76-year-old found out about the organization’s work to rescue endangered horses, donkeys and mules. King Charles III Meanwhile, visited the United Nations office in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
During her stay in the protected area, Camilla was presented with a traditional piece of clothing from the animal welfare organization Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals: the queen tied the so-called Shuka, a red scarf, around her dress decorated with embroidered giraffes, as in the pictures of the performance can be seen.
Charles and Camilla had started the morning of their busy day at a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Nairobi. During a commemorative ceremony here, the British King presented medals to World War II veterans who had destroyed them as an act of protest during a bloodily suppressed uprising in colonial times. Among the former soldiers of the Empire honored in this way was the 117-year-old Corporal Samwel Nthigai Mburia.
