Vice President invites UK King Charles for a trip to Maldives

Vice President Hussain Mohamed Latheef has extended invitation to the United Kingdom’s monarch, King Charles III to visit the Maldives for his next trip.

The Maldives vice president met with the UK monarch on the sidelines of the 27^th meeting of the heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations.

In a post on X, Vice President Hussain said it was an honor to meet the UK King.

Following the vice president’s invitation, President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu has formally extended the invitation to King Charles to visit the Maldives.

The first-ever and the only time a UK monarch visited the Maldives was by King Charles’s predecessor and his mother, Queen Elizabeth II 52 years back in 1972.

This year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2024) was held on October 25-26 in Apia and Mulifanua, Samoa. The meeting between the heads of government of the Commonwealth countries takes place in every two years.

Under the formula of the London Declaration, the UK monarch is the current Head of the Commonwealth, who succeeded after the demise of Elizabeth II – who had been the longest-serving Head of Commonwealth.