{"id":1402767,"date":"2022-03-27T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402767"},"modified":"2022-03-27T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:04:12","slug":"uks-prince-william-says-he-wants-to-serve-after-caribbean-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uks-prince-william-says-he-wants-to-serve-after-caribbean-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Prince William says he wants to serve after Caribbean criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuks-prince-william-says-he-wants-to-serve-after-caribbean-criticism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402767&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-27T110948Z_1_LYNXNPEI2Q04E_RTROPTP_0_BRITAIN-ROYALS-BAHAMAS_1.jpg\" alt=\"Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, visit Bahamas\" \/><br \/>\nFILE PHOTO: Britain&#8217;s Prince William shakes hands with a member of the public during a visit to a Fish Fry &#8211; a quintessentially Bahamian culinary gathering place which is found on every island in the Bahamas, on Great Abaco island, March 26, 2022. Chris Jackson\/Pool via REUTERS<\/div>\n<p>March 27, 2022<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Prince William has said he is committed to service and \u201cnot telling people what to do\u201d after a tour of the Caribbean that was marked by protests over the British empire and criticism that the trip reflected a throwback to colonial times.<\/p>\n<p>William released the statement at the end of an eight-day tour with his wife Kate to Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas that included protests and calls for reparations payments by Britain and an apology for slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Some British and international media have also criticised some images from the tour, such as the royals shaking hands with Jamaican children through wire fences and standing on an open-top vehicle to observe a military parade that recreated an image of Queen Elizabeth doing the same thing in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that this tour has brought into even sharper focus questions about the past and the future,\u201d William said. \u201cIn Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas, that future is for the people to decide upon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>William, second in line to the British throne, had travelled to the Caribbean with Kate to mark Queen Elizabeth\u2019s 70 years as monarch. But it came as some countries consider cutting ties with the British monarchy and after Barbados dropped the 95-year-old queen as head of state and became a republic.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth remains queen of 15 realms, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>William, whose official title is Duke of Cambridge, said he and his wife wanted to serve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us that\u2019s not telling people what to do. It is about serving and supporting them in whatever way they think best, by using the platform we are lucky to have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he was also not thinking about who would lead the Commonwealth of Nations, a group of 54 countries, almost all of which are former colonies of the United Kingdom, which is primarily focused on promoting democracy and development.<\/p>\n<p>The queen is the head of the Commonwealth and while the role is not hereditary, it will pass to William\u2019s father and heir to the throne, Prince Charles.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Britain&#8217;s Prince William shakes hands with a member of the public during a visit to a Fish Fry &#8211; a quintessentially Bahamian culinary gathering place which is found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}