Prince Edward visits Manhyia Palace in Kumasi

A durbar of chiefs has been held at the Manhyia Palace in Kumasi in honour of the visiting Earl of Wessex, Prince Anthony Edwards. 

Prince Edwards inspected a guard of honour mounted by a contingent of cadet from selected second cycle and a preparatory school also at the Palace. 

Prince Edwards was conducted round the Manhyia Palace Museum where articles of Asante historical relevance are kept. 

Among them are the brass sculpture of the late Otumfuo Sir Agyemang Prempeh and the legendary queen of Ejisu, Nana Yaa Asantewaa both of whom were captured by the British army and exiled in the Seychelles Islands. 

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu, used the opportunity to urge recipients of the Head of State Awards to be true trail blazers and inspire in the Ghanaian youth the need to climb high the academic ladder and also engage in entrepreneurship towards reducing the global canker of unemployment.  

The Chairman of the Duke of Edinburgh International Foundation, Lord Paul Boateng, used the occasion to officially invite Otumfuo Osei Tutu to grace the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheduled to take place in Ghana in 2018.

The visit of Prince Edwards to the Manhyia Palace is in recognition of the long standing historical relationship between the Asante kingdom and the British monarchy predating Ghana's political independence.

The Asantehene presented a special gift made of gold to be sent to Queen Elizabeth and a piece of Kente cloth to Prince Edwards.

Meanwhile, Prince Edwards has planted a commemorative tree at the Kumasi Rattray Park which has been named after a British soldier.

GBC