Queen Camilla turned heads in a striking leopard print ruffled dress by Fiona Clare during a reception at Buckingham Palace today, October 24.
She and King Charles were hosting the event to celebrate the relationship between Kenya and the UK, with the couple due to make their first visit as monarchs to the Commonwealth country next week.
They invited members of the Kenyan diaspora to the Palace to celebrate with them, including Dr Anna Makena, the programme coordinator of the Africa Oxford Initiative at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health.
President William Ruto has invited the King and Queen to Kenya for a state visit from October 31 until November 3, which they will mark their first international royal visit to the Commonwealth since their Coronation.
In a press statement posted on the Royal Family’s website, it says the visit will "celebrate the warm relationship between the two countries and the strong and dynamic partnership they continue to forge".
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Their packed three-day schedule includes visits to the capital Nairobi and coastal city Mombasa, however elements of the trip may be especially painful as they learn more about the Mau Mau uprising between 1952 and 1960.
During the uprising different ethnic groups native to the country banded together to overthrow their white British colonisers, which saw the British military respond brutally.
The Kenyan Human Rights Commission has since estimated that over 90,000 Kenyan people were tortured, maimed, or executed during the counterinsurgency, an event which led to the Kenyans to push for the independence they eventually won in 1963.
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In 2013 the British Government agreed to pay compensation to over 5,000 Kenyans due to the human rights abuses suffered due to colonialism.
Then-Foreign Secretary William Hague said at the time: "The British government recognises that Kenyans were subject to torture and other forms of ill-treatment at the hands of the colonial administration.
"The British government sincerely regrets that these abuses took place and that they marred Kenya's progress towards independence."
In the statement from the Palace it explains that the King "will take time during the visit to deepen his understanding of the wrongs suffered in this period by the people of Kenya".
While in the East African country the royals will also pay a visit to the site where Kenyan independence was declared and attend an event to celebrate the work of Nobel Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai.
Kenya is a significant place for the Royal Family, as it was where Queen Elizabeth learned of her father's death in 1952 and officially ascended to the throne.
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