King Charles III will not attend international climate change summit in Egypt next monthfueling speculation that the new monarch will have to rein in his environmental activism now that he has ascended the throne.
The Sunday Times newspaper reported that the decision came later UK Prime Minister Liz Truss objected to King Charles attending the conference, known as COP27when she met with the King last month at Buckingham Palace.
But a member of Ms. Truss’s cabinet said the government and palace were in agreement about the decision.
“That is a decision that has been made amicably, as far as I am aware, between the palace and the government,” Simon Clarke told Times Radio. “The suggestions this morning that he was ordered to stay away are simply not true.”
Under the rules that govern the constitutional monarchy, the King is barred from interfering in politics. By convention, all official overseas visits are by members of the royal family undertaken in accordance with advice from the government.
The King spoke at the opening ceremony of the COP26 summit Glasgow in 2021, which he described as a “last-chance saloon” to save the world from climate change, after the Queen pulled out on doctors’ advice.
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