The fashion on a royal tour should never overshadow the diplomatic mission – but wardrobe planning for something on the scale of the King and Queen’s tour of Australia and Samoa this week will have required months of preparation all the same.

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla flew out of Samoa on Saturday, after a visit in which the monarch acknowledged the Commonwealth's "painful" history, amid a push for former colonial powers to pay reparations for their role in transatlantic slavery.

Britain’s King Charles has said the Commonwealth should acknowledge its “painful” history and urged the organization to “right inequalities that endure” as he opened a meeting of Commonwealth countries in Samoa on Friday.

King Charles has urged the Commonwealth to "right inequalities" as he expresses that "no one can change the past."

King Charles and Queen Camilla leave Samoa after royal tour Watch live as Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla depart Samoa after a beach walk on Friday, 25 October. The royal couple flew to the Polynesian nation,

King Charles and Queen Camilla appeared to break royal protocol while travelling between Sydney and Samoa. The royals were pictured leaving an Australian aircraft as they touched down in Samoa. The Royal Family is also supposed to travel with flagship UK airline,