Crucial reason King Charles is ‘pushing to attend’ Commonwealth meeting in Samoa

EXCLUSIVE: King Charles has ‘instructed staff to push full steam ahead with plans’ to attend an event with very important meaning after the summer.

King Charles is set to head to Australia and Samoa this year (Image: Getty)

King Charles is preparing to attend a very important meeting overseas later this year for a key reason, a royal source has claimed.

The monarch is set to embark on a scaled-down Commonwealth tour in Samoa in late October and Australia later this year, it has been claimed.

Charles was originally expected to attend the 27th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on October 21–25 in Samoa just before his cancer diagnosis was announced earlier this year but since then Buckingham Palace refused to confirm his attendance.

However, sources have now claimed he has been given the green light to go ahead with the trip after the recent improvement in his condition, as the monarch is “pushing” to attend the meeting for a key reason – to showcase the Commonwealth unity.

Aides deemed this visit “crucial” for maintaining Australia’s allegiance to the Commonwealth, particularly as calls for a republic gain momentum in Australia.

King Charles’s condition has been improving (Image: Getty)
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Meanwhile, sources added that Charles has “instructed staff to push full steam ahead with plans for the visit”.

They explained to the Express: “The Monarch’s attendance at the CHOGM is being viewed as instrumental in preserving Commonwealth unity.

“Charles feels it important to show his support for the Commonwealth and demonstrate what the union can do for them.

“He [the King] wants to emphasise the positive aspects of being part of the union and dispel the myth that the Commonwealth is just a colony.”

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The 27th CHOGM will be the first under the King’s reign.

CHOGM consists of 56 member countries from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific and will be the first time the high-level meeting will be hosted by a small island state in Samoa.

It comes as anti-monarchists were recently filmed beheading a statue of King George V to the soundtrack of God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols in Melbourne.