King Charles III obtained tongues wagging at COP28 on Friday by carrying a tie apparently patterned with the Greek flag, because the UK authorities is mired in a row with Athens over the Parthenon Marbles.
Web sleuths noticed the king’s neckwear as images emerged of him on the local weather summit in Dubai, sparking hypothesis that it was focused at his prime minister Rishi Sunak, who was additionally on the occasion.
Sunak this week defended his last-minute choice to cancel talks with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, accusing his Greek counterpart of enjoying to the gallery in a row over the traditional sculptures.
The UK blamed the row on Mitsotakis’s feedback in a weekend BBC interview about Greek claims to the Parthenon Marbles on show within the British Museum.
Greek media pounced on the images, with day by day newspaper Kathimerini writing: “Though King Charles has not taken a stance on the difficulty, this transfer is seen by many analysts as an oblique type of assist.”
Others identified that Charles, whose father was Greek, had worn the identical tie final week to welcome the president of South Korea, earlier than the row erupted.
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Initially revealed as King Charles III’s tie raises eyebrows amid UK-Greek row
