The monarch made an impassioned speech at the event
has urged people to "pay attention" to indigenous communities "before it’s too late". His Majesty made an impromptu speech after presenting a conservation award at the annual Animal Ball, which was celebrating indigenous communities this year.
The four people presented with the Mark Shand Award were: Dr Tarsh Thekaekara, co-founder of The Real Elephant Collective and operations manager Subash Gautham and Vishnu Varadam and Ramesh Maran, indigenous members of the Bettakurumba Tribe.This year’s colourful event, which was jointly hosted by Elephant Family and the British Asian Trust,
The Queen looked elegant in a blue embroidered tunic top with blue palazzo chiffon trousers by Anna Valentine and diamond earrings by Van Cleef and Arpels. She and the King were presented with Shola masks by renowned Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, carved from sholapith, a sustainable type of cork grown in the marshlands of Bengal.
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