The emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will advance in the UK Monday for a two-day train consult with hosted by King Charles III.
The emir, 44, and his consort, Sheikha Jawaher bint Hamad Al Thani, are resulting from advance at Stansted airport east of London.
The train consult with will launch Tuesday when the Qatari couple are greeted by inheritor to the throne Prince William and his spouse Catherine, Princess of Wales, at their save at Kensington Palace in west London.
The royal couple will then meet King Charles, 76, and Queen Camilla, 77, at Horse Guards Parade in central London where they’ll receive a ceremonial welcome.
The consult with comes because the UK is seeking a change agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), of which Qatar is a member.
The UK’s Labour authorities, elected in July, is hoping to cease a free-change tackle the GCC’s six international locations — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The authorities says a deal might perhaps perhaps enhance the UK economy by round 1.6 billion ($2 billion) and begin up lucrative markets to British companies.
The consult with will consist of a train ceremonial dinner at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening and talks with Top Minister Keir Starmer at Downing Avenue on Wednesday.
Catherine, 42, in total in most cases known as Kate, is resulting from play a small part in the consult with following a tentative return to royal obligations after her most cancers prognosis earlier this one year.
She won’t, then again, relief the train ceremonial dinner, her Kensington Palace save of job acknowledged.
The Qatari chief changed into once educated in Britain where he attended leading deepest colleges earlier than graduating from the Sandhurst military academy.
He and Sheikha Jawaher attended every Charles’s coronation in Could well well also 2023 and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022.
Charles, as Prince of Wales, has visited Qatar eight times and closing met the emir at the COP28 local climate summit in Dubai closing December.
