King Charles Announces MAJOR Autumn Tour as Monarch Heads to Bahamas and Guyana Solo Before Reuniting With Queen Camilla in Antigua
King Charles Announces MAJOR Autumn Tour as Monarch Heads to Bahamas and Guyana Solo Before Reuniting With Queen Camilla in Antigua.

King Charles and Queen Camilla have revealed plans for a major autumn overseas tour, with the monarch set to travel alone to the Bahamas and Guyana before the couple reunite in Antigua and Barbuda for one of the Commonwealth’s biggest gatherings.
Buckingham Palace confirmed that the tour will run from Tuesday, October 27, until Wednesday, November 4, 2026.
Charles will begin the trip with a royal visit to the Bahamas, where he serves as Head of State.
The visit carries particular significance because it will be the King’s first trip to the Caribbean since 2021, when, as Prince of Wales, he attended Barbados’s transition to a republic.
From the Bahamas, Charles will travel on to Guyana for a formal State Visit.
The trip is being made at the invitation of the President of Guyana and at the request of the British Government, and will commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations between the UK and Guyana.
Guyana became independent from Britain in 1966 and later became a republic in 1970. Charles previously visited the South American nation in 2000.
Queen Camilla will then join the King in Antigua and Barbuda, where the couple will attend the 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
CHOGM will take place from November 1 to 4 and bring together leaders and representatives from across the 56-member Commonwealth. Charles is Head of the Commonwealth as well as King of Antigua and Barbuda.
Buckingham Palace said the wider tour will celebrate the “communities, cultures and nature” found across the Commonwealth family, with further details of the King and Queen’s engagements due to be announced closer to the trip.
The schedule will also draw attention because Charles, 77, continues to receive cancer treatment while maintaining a busy programme of public and international duties.
Despite his health challenges, the King has gradually increased his overseas schedule, with the Caribbean tour representing another substantial international commitment.
Charles has longstanding connections to all three destinations.
He previously visited Antigua and Barbuda in 2017 after Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated parts of the region, while his first recorded visit to the Bahamas dates back to 1973.
This time, however, he returns not as heir to the throne but as monarch and Commonwealth leader.
The trip will therefore carry both diplomatic and symbolic importance, reinforcing Britain’s relationships with Commonwealth nations at a time when several Caribbean countries continue to debate their constitutional links with the Crown.
For Charles and Camilla, the autumn tour will mark another major chapter in a demanding royal year — combining solo diplomacy, a State Visit and a high-profile Commonwealth summit across three countries in just over a week.