<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">King Charles King Charles will not attend the climate change conference COP27, which is due to be held in Egypt later this year, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was responding to a story in The Sunday Times which claimed Prime Minister Liz Truss had "ordered" the King not to attend.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Palace said advice had been sought by the King and given by Ms Truss.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"With mutual friendship and respect there was agreement that the King would not attend," the Palace stated.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before his ascension to the throne last month, the King - then the Prince of Wales - had indicated he would attend the annual conference.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the BBC had put it to the Palace that the King must be personally disappointed given his long decades of passionate environmental campaigning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But the Palace responded that the idea that the King was uncomfortable was not the case, and that he was ever mindful of the sovereign's role to act on the advice of the government.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>