President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accepted the invitation to attend the coronation of the British monarch King Charles III.
Mnangagwa said he held a meeting with the United Kingdom Ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson on Sunday where they also discussed trade and investment. He said:
I’m most excited to announce that I have accepted an invitation to the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. Yesterday I met with the British Ambassador, Melanie Robinson.
We also discussed trade, investment, and the special relationship between Zimbabwe and the UK.
Last month Mnangagwa wrote in his weekly column in The Sunday Mail, that he was set to visit the United Kingdom in May this year to attend the coronation of the new British monarch.
He said the invitation to attend King Charles III’s coronation adds a positive chapter to bilateral relations between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom.
Since becoming the president of Zimbabwe in 2017, Mnangagwa has been pushing what he calls the engagement and re-engagement agenda in a bid to end the country’s two-decade isolation from the international community.
Mnangagwa is also eager for Zimbabwe to rejoin the Commonwealth.
The coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as king and queen of the United is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 6 May 2023, at Westminster Abbey.
Charles acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022, upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The Coronation service will begin at 11 AM at Westminster Abbey.
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