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King Charles III in Dubai for COP28 with his tie in the colors of Greece, December 1st.
INTERNATIONAL – Would Charles III. like his mother using fashion to send messages to the British government? The royal, present at COP28 in Dubai on Friday December 1, wore a tie that was quickly interpreted in the UK as a reaction to the cancellation of the meeting between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
This blue and white tie, which you can see in the photo at the top of the article, seems perfect with Charles III’s light gray suit. to fit. But if you look a little closer, you might be able to see the pattern of the Greek flag, the country where his father, the late Prince Philippe, was born. His pocket square also bears the national colors of light blue and white.
It is difficult to see this as a coincidence, since at the end of November Rishi Sunak decided not to meet Kyriakos Mitsotakis due to a dispute over the marble of the Parthenon, a huge frieze created at the end of antiquity.
Diplomatic dispute with Greece
The two leaders were due to meet in London on Tuesday and discuss the return of the frieze, a third of which is in the Acropolis Museum in Athens and another part in the British Museum. The government finally sent the deputy prime minister to this meeting.
As the Greek news agency ANA reported, citing sources within the Greek government, the British prime minister was apparently upset by his Greek counterpart’s comments to the BBC a few days earlier. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, an ardent supporter of returning the famous ancient marbles to Athens, estimated that keeping part of the Parthenon friezes outside Greece would be akin to “cutting up the Mona Lisa.”
Wanted Charles III. send a message of reassurance? Unsurprisingly, Buckinghman Palace told CNN that the tie conveyed no political message and was simply part of the monarch’s current wardrobe. This wasn’t the first time Charles wore the accessory: he wore this tie on November 21 to welcome South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to London.
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For his part, Rishi Sunak did not seem to blame the sovereign, as on Friday he posted on X (formerly Twitter) a photo of them with the king wearing that famous tie, as you can see below. The two men seem very happy to see each other.
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Queen Elizabeth talked a lot about her during her opening speech to Parliament in 2017. She wore a blue hat with yellow stars, strangely reminiscent of the European Union flag when the Brexit vote was taken a year earlier. Buckingham Palace has never confirmed the political message behind this outfit.
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