On his sixty-fifth birthday, His Royal
Highness The Prince of Wales will arrive in Sri Lanka for the opening of
CHOGM today (14 ).He will be joined on his three day visit by Her Royal
Highness The Duchess of Cornwall.
At a reception to be held to mark His
Royal Highness' birthday he will meet a range of people from Sri Lankan
society. The garden at Westminster House, the venue for the party, will
host a small organic market, at which The Prince and Duchess will view
local produce and learn about farming in Sri Lanka.
On Friday 15th November The Prince will
represent The Queen as Head of the Commonwealth in the CHOGM opening
ceremony, and will host other Commonwealth events including a reception
for business leaders and a dinner for Heads of Government.
The Prince will then spend Saturday in
the hill country. In Kandy he will be visiting the iconic Temple of the
Tooth, the British Garrison Cemetery and the historic Peredeniya
Botanical Gardens . Moving on to Nuwara Eliya, he will see visit the
Labookellie tea estate and a school for children with disabilities.
On 16 th of Saturday, The Duchess will
visit charities in Colombo such as the Home-Start Lanka Satellite Centre
in Colombo Municipal Council’s ‘Building Hope’ Resource Centre. She
will also visit Women In Need’s (WIN) crisis centre in Colombo, which
offers legal assistance, protection and counselling for women – and
their children – who are victims of rape, sexual assault and domestic
violence. The Duchess of Cornwall has visited a number of Rape Crisis
and Sexual Assault Referral Centres in the UK and has met a number of
victims of rape and sexual abuse. The stories Her Royal Highness heard
on her first visit to in London, and the experiences she has heard about
subsequently, have left her with a strong desire to raise awareness
about rape and sexual abuse and to try to help those affected.
The Prince of Wales last visited Sri
Lanka in 2005 and previously in 1998. This will be The Duchess of
Cornwall's first official visit to Sri Lanka. They will be in Sri Lanka
from Thursday 14th to Saturday 16th November 2013.
The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of
Cornwall attended the official banquet of the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting in Uganda in 2007.
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