King Charles meets with the President of Latvia in private audience at Buckingham Palace
King Charles meets with President of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics
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King Charles met with the President of Latvia in a private audience at Buckingham Palace.
The monarch was pictured shaking hands and posing for pictures with Edgars Rinkevics this afternoon.
Charles wore a light grey suit, a matching pink and grey patterned tie and a blue and white pocket handkerchief.
The 75-year-old King looked in good spirits as he smiled and laughed with Latvia’s president.
President Edgars Rinkevics is on a three-day working trip to the UK
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Rinkevics served as foreign minister since 2011 before being sworn in as Latvia’s president in July 2023.
The president is on the second day of his three-day working visit to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
His visit will also include discussions at the Royal United Services Institute and the University of Oxford and interviews with several media outlets.
It comes as King Charles becomes a patron of a charity previously held by his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
King Charles has accepted the position of patron of The Fire Fighters Charity
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The monarch accepted the position of patron of The Fire Fighters Charity, an organisation that offers health and wellbeing to the UK’s fire services community.
The organisation said the move marks the continuation of a longstanding relationship with the Royal Family.
The late Queen held the role for 69 years after taking on the patronage from the then-Fire Services National Benevolent Fund in 1953.
The Prince of Wales also has close ties with the charity, which worked with William’s Royal Foundation.
The late Queen held the role of patron for 69 years
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Last week, Charles also accepted a patronage from Gordonstoun, his former school in Scotland.
The King became patron of the Gordonstoun Association to mark the first anniversary of his Coronation, a role previously held by his father, Prince Philip, who also attended the school.
Charles was enrolled in the school from 1962 to 1967. He earned five O-levels and two A-levels, earning him a place to study archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge.