Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 August 2026, 22:07 by Denis Chabrol
The United Kingdom’s King Charles III would be visiting Guyana in October as part a visit to a number of Caribbean countries, authorities said Wednesday.
The Guyana government said King Charles has accepted its invitation and the request of the United Kingdom government to visit Guyana in the latter part of October to mark 60 years of bilateral relations between the UK and Guyana.
The visit will coincide with their their Majesties’ autumn tour announced by Buckingham Palace earlier Wednesday.
During their tour from Tuesday, 27th October to Wednesday, 4th November 2026., the Royal Family says the King and Queen will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2026. That summit is scheduled for November 1 to 4 in Antigua and Barbuda. The King is the Head of the Commonwealth, a grouping of mainly former British colonies around the world.
The tour will begin in The Bahamas before travelling to Guyana.
The last British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by her husband Prince Phillip, visited Guyana in 1994.
It marks the first time the King has visited the Caribbean since 2021, when he travelled to Barbados to see the country officially removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become the world’s newest republic.
The monarch, who was the Prince of Wales at the time, acknowledged the “appalling atrocity of slavery” the Caribbean island suffered during a speech he made.
He also visited Antigua and Barbuda in 2017 following the widespread devastation caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and made official visits to Guyana in 2000 and the Bahamas in 1973.
He travelled across the Atlantic Ocean earlier this year when he visited Bermuda in May, where he is also head of state.
The trip marked his first royal visit as monarch to a British overseas territory and came after a state visit to the US.
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