UK’s King Charles expresses ‘horror’ and ‘sorrow’ over slavery | AFP

King Charles III says the "shameful chapter" of the transatlantic slave trade fills him with "profound personal sorrow" as he opens a Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda. It comes as UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham mulls apologising for Britain's role in slavery. "That shameful chapter of history is one that fills my heart with horror and my soul with the most profound personal sorrow," the monarch tells the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. SOUNDBITE

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