King Charles III, who is 75 and battling cancer, will travel halfway around the world to Samoa this month to take his seat as the head of the Commonwealth and highlight the existential threat that climate change poses for Pacific island nations.
The Associated PressBritain's Prince Charles, right, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, hold boomerangs while visiting Kings Park in Perth, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015.
“He doesn’t just want to be a sort of caretaker king, waiting in a sense for his own death and the accession of William,’’ said Anna Whitelock, a professor of the history of the monarchy at City University, London, referring to Prince William. “He wants to be active in the world.’’ Charles later toured the country as a young prince and visited again soon after he married his first wife, the late Princess Diana.
The king’s visit helps to bolster ties between Australia and the U.K., which recently signed a tripartite security agreement with the United States. The pact, known as AUKUS, will equip the Australian navy with nuclear-powered submarines for the first time, while also increasing military cooperation and information sharing in other areas.
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