Omid Scobie, who criticised the Wales’ at the time, today tweeted the red carpet image from Kenya and questioned the ‘optics’ for the King and Queen, declaring: ‘Even if this was a choice made by the hosts (and it probably was), the optics of the King and Queen walking on a red carpet to avoid soil at Nairobi National Park are pretty ridiculous and out of touch. A clued up Palace aide could have easily asked for it to be removed’.<\/span><\/p>\n He added: ‘I\u2019ve been on many royal visits all over the world and seen aides run around requesting last minute tweaks or changes before royals arrive at engagements (including red carpets that have been deemed unnecessary) so there is precedent for this’.<\/span><\/p>\n MailOnline has asked Buckingham Palace to comment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Omid Scobie shared this picture of the King and Queen on a red carpet at the\u00a0Nairobi National Park, claiming it made the couple look ‘pretty ridiculous and out of touch’<\/p>\n Mr Scobie said that the Palace should have intervened – as had happened on other royal visits<\/p>\n Queen Camilla in hiking boots while feeding milk to an orphaned elephant\u00a0in the same trip to the Nairobi National Park on Wednesday, with no red carpet<\/p>\n The Cambridges greeting young Jamaican fans through a fence last year, which royal experts was an avoidable error by planners that should have been avoided at all costs<\/p>\n ITV Royal Editor Chris Ship said that on the same visit to the Nairobi National Park, the Queen donned hiking boots and got the chance to bottle-feed orphaned baby elephants at a sanctuary.<\/span><\/p>\n He tweeted Mr Scobie and said: ‘The Kenyans were very keen on red carpets. I saw more of them here than on any other royal tour. But otherwise agree, this looks odd’.<\/span><\/p>\n The four-day trip to Kenya, which ended today, has been viewed as a success. Whereas Kate and William’s Caribbean trip was viewed as one that required lessons to be learned after a series of photo opportunity blunders and protests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The King and Queen have used their trip to east Africa to address the \u2018painful\u2019 legacy of Empire head on.<\/p>\n This week he told the Kenyan people of his \u2018greatest sorrow and deepest regret\u2019 at Britain\u2019s \u2018abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence\u2019 during the Colonial era.<\/p>\n In a keynote speech that went far further than many expected amid calls for an apology over government abuses under his late mother\u2019s reign, King Charles said there was \u2018no excuse\u2019 for British \u2019wrongdoings\u2019 in the East African nation, particularly against the Mau Mau rebellion.<\/p>\n Speaking at a state banquet in Nairobi, he told the Kenyan President and 350 guests: \u2018It is the intimacy of our shared history that has brought our people together. However, we must also acknowledge the most painful times of our long and complex relationship.<\/p>\n \u2018The wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret. There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged, as you said at the United Nations, a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty \u2013 and for that, there can be no excuse.’<\/p>\n King Charles III (C) walks to the plane before departing from Moi International Airport<\/p>\n King Charles III and President of the Republic of Kenya, William Ruto ahead of witnessing the Kenya Marines demonstrate a covert beach landing in Mombasa<\/p>\n King Charles expressed his ‘greatest sorrow and deepest regret’ for atrocities suffered by Kenyans during their struggle for independence from British colonial rule in a speech given at a banquet on his state visit to Kenya<\/p>\n But he stopped short of making a full apology called for by survivors of that period and local rights groups who are pressing for reparations from the British government<\/p>\n President William Ruto praised Charles for his courage and readiness ‘to shed light on uncomfortable truths that reside in the darker regions of our shared experience’<\/p>\n Charles toasts Kenyan First Lady Rachel Ruto during the State Banquet<\/p>\n Charles continued: \u2018In coming back to Kenya, it matters greatly to me that I should deepen my own understanding of these wrongs, and that I meet some of those whose lives and communities were so grievously affected.<\/p>\n \u2018None of this can change the past. But by addressing our history with honesty and openness we can, perhaps, demonstrate the strength of our friendship today. And, in so doing, we can, I hope, continue to build an ever-closer bond for the years ahead.\u2019<\/p>\n The King stopped short of a direct apology, which carries greater legal culpability, because it is not British government policy to do so.<\/p>\n His words came as President Ruto made an even more strongly-worded address – and hinted at further demands for reparations.<\/p>\n He said Britain and Kenya could not \u2018live in denial of history\u2019 and highlighted the \u2018displacement, dispossession and disenfranchisement of native Africans, paving the way for a brutal colonialism\u2019.<\/p>\n The president described British attempts to put down the Kenyan people\u2019s fight for independence as \u2018monstrous in its cruelty\u2019 and made clear that he felt the \u00a320 million so far paid out by Britain in compensation to victims of torture and repression as inadequate.<\/p>\n \u2018While there have been efforts to atone for the death, injury and suffering inflicted on Kenyan Africans by the colonial government, much remains to be done in order to achieve full reparations,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n But he praised the King for his \u2018visionary leadership\u2019 on the issue, saying: \u2018Your exemplary courage and readiness to shed light on uncomfortable truths that reside in the darker regions of our shared experience are\u2026.commendable.<\/p>\n \u2018This is a highly encouraging first step, under your leadership, to deliver progress beyond tentative and equivocal half measures of past years\u2018We are therefore confident that, under your visionary leadership, the Kenya-United Kingdom relations will continue to prosper for the benefit of our two countries and peoples. \u2018<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/03\/13\/77364433-12706891-image-a-35_1699016861291.jpg\")
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