Amid calls for an apology and huge payout for Britain's role in the slave trade 300 years ago, King placed in impossible position by self-lacerating Church of England leaders determined to splurge £100m on reparations

The King finds himself in an impossible position. And it is the self-lacerating Church, obsessed as it is with the past evils of slavery, that has placed him there.

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