Buckingham Palace has officially announced the details of a landmark 2026 Autumn Tour by Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla, spanning nine days from October 27 to November 4 that will include bilateral visits to two Caribbean nations and culminate in the opening of the 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda. The carefully crafted itinerary weaves together celebration of long-standing diplomatic ties, youth empowerment, environmental conservation, and cultural exchange, aligning with the 2026 CHOGM theme of accelerating collaborative action for shared prosperity across the 56-nation voluntary association.
The tour will kick off with the King’s solo official visit to The Bahamas, where he serves as Head of State, running from October 27 to 29. The trip will revisit a location with deep personal significance for the monarch: Clifford Park, where he attended the country’s 1973 independence celebrations as Prince of Wales. This time, the park will host a Youth Rally highlighting the central role of young people across the Commonwealth — where more than 60% of the population is aged 29 or younger. The King will also attend a second youth-focused event centered on using sport as a tool for empowerment.
Beyond youth engagement, The Bahamas leg of the tour will highlight three key priority areas for the King: environmental stewardship, national security, and cultural preservation. At a key conservation site on New Providence, he will view ongoing restoration work that has transformed a once-degraded landscape into a critical wildlife habitat. He will also travel to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s Coral Harbour Base to meet personnel and learn about their critical work protecting the country’s expansive maritime borders, leading search and rescue operations, coordinating disaster response, and upholding national security. In the heart of Nassau’s Parliament Square, he will meet community representatives from across The Bahamas’ archipelago of Family Islands before watching a traditional Junkanoo parade along Bay Street. His visit will conclude with a garden reception at Government House hosted by the Governor General and Prime Minister Philip Davis.
Following his time in The Bahamas, the King will travel to Guyana for an official visit from October 30 to 31, held at the invitation of President Mohamed Irfaan Ali and request of the UK government to mark 60 years of formal bilateral relations between the two nations. Guyana, one of the world’s fastest growing economies, will showcase its deep economic and community ties with the UK during the visit. Upon arrival, the King will hold an audience with President Ali at State House before joining a public state reception celebrating the six-decade partnership. The following day, he will meet British business leaders and local stakeholders to highlight growing trade and investment links between the two countries.
Conservation and community engagement will also take center stage in Guyana. As Patron of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the King will lay tributes at the Georgetown (Rabbit Walk) Memorial alongside veterans and government representatives, honoring the shared sacrifice of British, Guyanese, and Commonwealth service members. He will also meet elected leaders of the National Toshaos Council, which represents more than 200 Indigenous Amerindian communities across Guyana’s 10 administrative regions.
Environmental action will be a core throughline of the Guyana leg: the King will meet young environmental activists working on urban conservation at a Georgetown botanical garden, then connect with scientists, Indigenous leaders, and innovators leading biodiversity and restoration work across the country. He will receive updates from the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, a leading tropical forest stewardship organization of which he has served as Patron since 2000, when he first visited the 371,000-hectare reserve as Prince of Wales. The King’s time in Guyana will conclude on the Georgetown seawall, where he will meet participants in the Wilton Park Commonwealth Sustainable Cities Initiative and learn about large-scale mangrove restoration projects that protect the capital’s coastline and support local wildlife, ahead of the CHOGM gathering.
The full royal party will reunite in Antigua and Barbuda for the lead-up to CHOGM 2026, which runs from November 1 to 4 and coincides with the country’s 45th independence anniversary. This visit marks the first official trip to Antigua and Barbuda for Queen Camilla, while the King last traveled to the country in 2017 as Prince of Wales to support recovery efforts after the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
On November 1, Antigua and Barbuda’s Independence Day, Their Majesties will attend a national church service followed by the annual independence parade at the Sir Viv Richards Stadium, where the King will inspect the guard of honor and meet legendary Antiguan and Barbudan cricketers and other sporting icons. The tour will open with a reception at Government House, where the couple will meet local musicians, youth leaders, and community representatives, and view exhibitions highlighting the country’s artistic and cultural heritage, including work supported by the Royal Drawing School. They will also visit a community garden project where local artisans and horticulturists work to preserve traditional growing skills and heritage plant species, passing traditional knowledge to younger generations.
Like the earlier legs of the tour, sustainability will feature heavily in the Antigua and Barbuda programme. The King will visit a combined natural and historic heritage site to meet conservation specialists working to restore historic structures while boosting the country’s climate resilience and protecting fragile marine ecosystems. He will also learn about innovative coral reef restoration projects designed to reverse coastal ecosystem decline, and meet young environmental leaders working on ocean stewardship initiatives. At a coastal beach, Their Majesties will meet youth-led and community groups organizing beach cleanups and conservation education programs that highlight the critical importance of healthy marine environments for small island developing states across the Commonwealth. The King will also address business leaders at the Commonwealth Business Forum Reception, where he will discuss the private sector’s essential role in advancing global sustainable development goals.
Aligning with CHOGM 2026’s focus on youth opportunity, Their Majesties will hold multiple engagements with emerging young leaders across the Commonwealth. Queen Camilla will visit a local school to meet students participating in a Commonwealth writing workshop tied to her eponymous Commonwealth Writing Competition, which celebrates literacy, creativity, and cross-cultural exchange. The King will meet delegates of the Commonwealth Youth Forum and participants in The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme — a new initiative launched at the 2024 CHOGM in Samoa by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, designed to expand opportunity and address shared challenges including climate change and inequality for small island developing states.
As Head of the Commonwealth, the King will lead the opening of CHOGM 2026, bringing together heads of government, business leaders, civil society representatives, and youth delegates from all 56 member states to advance the meeting’s theme: “Accelerating Partnerships and Investment for a Prosperous Commonwealth”. While in attendance at the summit, Queen Camilla will participate in the Commonwealth Women’s Forum and meet local women’s rights advocates working to end violence against women and girls across Antigua and Barbuda.