Islamabad: The Foreign Office said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will go to the UK next week. He will watch the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla on May 6.
PM Shehbaz will also attend an event for Commonwealth leaders in London on May 5. He is also likely to have one-on-one talks with other leaders who are there for the celebrations.
The FO said that ties between Pakistan and the UK go back a long way. As well as these are based on the strong Pakistani-British community.
“We see the British monarch and the royal family as friends of Pakistan and its people. We look forward to further strengthening ties between Pakistan and the United Kingdom,” it said.
Charles III will be crowned king at a church service next month. This will happen eight months after his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died.
The set-piece coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6 will be the first in Britain in 70 years and only the second in history to be broadcast.
Since King William I was crowned there in 1066, Charles will be the 40th king or queen to be crowned there.
He is also the king of 14 other Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, that are not in the UK.
His second wife, Camilla, will become queen.
The ceremony will include Charles and Camilla’s grandkids. More than 2,000 invited dignitaries will watch, which is a quarter of the number who were there in 1953.
