<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on sunday attended a reception hosted by Britain's King Charles III at Buckingham Palace with other world leaders.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla hosted the reception for the presidents, prime ministers and monarchs from around the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina was accompanied by her younger sister Sheikh Rehana. Around 500 guests attended the reception.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">New King Charles, joined by Queen Consort Camilla, hosted world leaders, foreign royals and dignitaries who have travelled to Britain for the state funeral on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other members of the Royal Family including Prince William, Kate, Prince Edward, Sophie Wessex, Princess Anne, her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester also attended the event.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem while briefing the reporters said that the premier had a long parley with the new King and the Queen Consort.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She said that they remembered the late Queen Elizabeth.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Muna said, the prime minister said that Queen Elizabeth was not only the mother of the new King Charles, she was also a mother-like figure to her.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Hasina congratulated the new King.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Muna said the King and the Queen Consort both expressed regrets  that their scheduled visit to Bangladesh in October has to be postponed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The high commissioner quoted Camilla as saying that she had a plan to visit Sylhet and the Sundarbans.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">She said that Bangladesh prime minister exchanged greetings with her counterparts of the UK, Canada and New Zealand, Queen of the Netherlands, Presidents of India and Nepal, and other world leaders.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier on Sunday morning, Hasina along with her younger sister Rehana went to the Palace of Westminster to pay their last respect to the late Queen where the body of Elizabeth II was kept in the lying-in-state.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina arrived in London on an official visit to the United Kingdom on September 15 to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>