King Charles III and Queen Camilla received a warm welcome from the British Bangladeshi community during a historic visit to Brick Lane.
They chatted to those who welcomed them during the walkabout of “Bangla Town” and planted an elm tree in memory of Altab Ali, who was fatally wounded in a stabbing in 1978.
Ayesha Qureshi and Abdal Ullah, a couple who founded the British Bangladeshi Power & Inspiration Foundation, hosted the visit after the King met leading South Asians last October who suggested the Brick Lane meeting.
Ms Qureshi said. “(It) just goes to show how engaged His Majesty is with the community in the United Kingdom, with multiculturalism, with the anti-racism movement. It may seem little, it’s just a visit, but actually, the poignancy of it, I think, is a very fundamental to what I hope will be a marker of his reign.”
She told ITV News London that Charles and Camilla were “extraordinarily warm”.
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