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King Charles III is to demands to pay $260 billion in compensation for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade. The British monarch will the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit later this week. The annual meeting together leaders of 56 member states that once territories or colonies of the former British Empire. Fifteen Caribbean nations have unanimously to the issue of slave trade reparations at the summit. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said the U.K. to for its past atrocities. U.N. judge Patrick Robinson the realistic amount of reparations for damage done by Britain during the slave trade at $25 trillion.

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy has of how his ancestors heard "twisted lies of imperialism as they were… into slaves". His ancestors were . In 2018, he tweeted: "As Caribbean people, we are not going to our history. We don't just want to hear an apology. We want reparations." Conversely, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a possible future chairman of the U.K. Conservative Party, Commonwealth countries should pay the U.K. for its role in slavery. He tweeted: "They ought to us for ending slavery. It is not something any other country had , and we were by Christian charity." The U.K. recently stated there would no financial redress.