Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka presented an official apology to King Charles III, for his part in the military coup of 1987, during his official tour of Britain earlier this month.
He told Parliament this was the second time he had presented an apology to a reigning monarch.
“I took the opportunity to present my apologies again to His Majesty for my actions in 1987 as I had done to the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II when I had visited her in 1998,” he said.
“That action resulted in our expulsion from the Commonwealth. Our withdrawal from the realm was at my declaration that Fiji be made a Republic on October 7, 1987.”
He added that the King has left it to the people of Fiji if we wanted to return to British rule.
“If there was any wish for Fiji to return to the realm, as her late Majesty had told me and as His Majesty said to me last week, let it be the will of the people.”
