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King Charles visits Gray’s Inn

Trip to legal London during South African president's state visit seen as demonstrating King's personal commitment to rule of law

Nov 23, 2022
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King Charles visited Gray’s Inn this morning, where he met students, barristers and some of the masters of the bench who comprise the inn’s governing body — benchers for short.

His Majesty has been a royal bencher since 1975. The Queen is also an honorary bencher. A portrait of the then Prince of Wales by June Mendoza, completed in 1979, has pride of pla…

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