Kenyan tribes have written to the Duke of Cambridge calling for his help in securing reparations and an apology from Britain after their ancestral lands were turned into tea plantations in the colonial era.
Members of the Kipsigis and Talai tribes have petitioned the duke to "do the right thing" and intervene in the ongoing dispute, reminding him that the country is a "special place for you and your family".
They reminded Prince William that he proposed to Kate Middleton in Kenya and it was where the Queen learned she had acceded to the throne. They argued they were suffering ongoing hardship owing to "losing such precious land to profit-hungry corporations". Claiming their "colonial past" was also the duke's, they said: "Where we inherited the pain, you inherited the profit."
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Legal representatives of the surviving tribes are currently in London to meet MPs and posed with their letter to the duke outside Clarence House, home of the Prince of Wales. The duke has not yet responded directly to the petition. It is understood that the letter has been forwarded to the Foreign Office, as it concerns a matter of foreign policy.