AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - King Charles declines to personally receive Jamaica's £7.6 billion slavery reparations petition
Jamaica's government sent a delegation to London demanding Britain answer for the slave trade, and King Charles III refused to meet them, citing both scheduling and constitutional protocol. Jamaican culture minister Olivia Grange arrived in London in late August 2026 carrying a petition that asks a pointed set of questions: Was the forced transport of […] The post King Charles declines to personally receive Jamaica's £7.6 billion slavery reparations petition appeared first on American Almanac .
Jamaica's government sent a delegation to London demanding Britain answer for the slave trade, and King Charles III refused to meet them, citing both scheduling and constitutional protocol. Jamaican culture minister Olivia Grange arrived in London in late August 2026 carrying a petition that asks a pointed set of questions: Was the forced transport of Africans to Jamaica illegal under English common law? Did it constitute crimes against humanity? And does Britain owe Jamaica a remedy? The petition, filed at Buckingham Palace, seeks referral of those three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the highest appellate court for Commonwealth nations that still maintain legal ties to the United Kingdom. The reparations…Open