Jamaica has intensified its campaign for £7.6billion in slavery reparations by sending a government delegation to London to lobby King Charles directly. The delegation has presented a petition to Buckingham Palace and is holding talks with the Foreign Office, seeking to draw the King into the debate as Jamaica's head of state, even though the UK government has repeatedly said it will not pay reparations.

The petition asks Charles to refer three questions to the Privy Council: whether the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica was legal under English law, whether it violated international law, and whether Britain has a legal duty to provide redress today. It highlights that when Britain abolished slavery in 1833 it compensated slave owners rather than enslaved people, taking out a £20million loan (40% of the Treasury's annual income) that was not repaid until 2015. Jamaican culture minister Olivia Grange argued this justifies pursuing remedy now, while a Buckingham Palace spokesman said the King has "no personal discretion" over Privy Council referrals but remains committed to addressing "historic wrongs." Grange is also separately asking the British Museum to return three 18th-century Taino carvings taken from Jamaica.