The Prince of Wales has expressed his "personal sorrow" about "slavery's enduring impact" in a speech at the opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda.

At the ceremonial event in Kigali, which officially starts the leader-level CHOGM meetings, the prince called on Commonwealth leaders to join him in formally recognising the horrors of the slave trade and other difficult aspects of the colonial past.

He said: "To unlock the power of our common future, we must also acknowledge the wrongs which have shaped our past. Many of those wrongs belong to an earlier age with different, and in some ways lesser, values."

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