King Charles becomes Samoan ‘high chief’ and drinks narcotic kava at welcoming ceremony
Locals also planned to raise the issue of climate change with the monarch, who is on his first visit to Samoa
King Charles III has taken part in a traditional kava-drinking ceremony before a line of bare-chested, heavily tattooed Samoans and been declared a “high chief” of his Pacific island realm.
The British monarch is on an 11-day tour of Australia and Samoa, independent nations where he is still head of state – the first major foreign trip since his cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
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