Charles 'will be connected to lands for ever'

KING Charles faced torrential rain that Samoan elders described as a "gift from the gods" as he walked in mangroves that are under threat from climate change.

- RUSSELL MYERS

The monarch ditched his suit and dressed for island life as he was made a high chief.

Dressed in a specially designed bush jacket, with a blue trim hand-stitched by the Samoan School of Fine Arts, the King wished the luck of the gods on his hosts as he drank an ava potion.