LABUAN BAJO – President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. mentioned King Charles III requested about his mom, former First Lady Imelda Marcos, through the coronation over the weekend.
Marcos advised reporters in Indonesia that the monarch and his mom Imelda know one another due to their conferences many years in the past when his father, Ferdinand, Sr., was nonetheless president.
“Kasi kilalang-kilala niya talaga ‘yan eh. Magkakilala talaga sila. Ako nakilala ko siya mga two or three times pero ‘yung si mother ko talaga ‘yung… Kasi mga foreign—siya ang laging representative ng reyna, mommy ko naman ang representative ng father ko,” Marcos said.
“So lagi silang nagkikita kung saan-saan. And he said, ‘Well, give her my warmest felicitations. We had so much fun together,’ sabi niya. And I said, ‘Well, congratulations on your coronation’,” he added.
The Philippine President attended King Charles’ coronation in London on May 6. He told the king that his mother wants to extend her congratulations for his coronation.
“And I told him – I then went and said, “My mother when she found out – my mother Imelda…” ‘Pag Imelda nakilala na niya. “My mother Imelda, when she knew that I was coming here, wanted to send you her best wishes and congratulations for your coronation.” And he said, “How is she?” Marcos shared.
Marcos also mentioned that during his brief encounter with King Charles, the latter mentioned that the Philippines has been suffering from typhoons due to climate change.
King Charles said no one listened to the warnings made against the effects of climate change.
“I just caught a few moments with him. Kinamayan ko. Nagpakilala ako. The minute he heard Philippines sabi niya, ‘It’s horrible what you need to endure, all of those typhoons that local weather change has introduced,'” Marcos said.
“Sinabi ko nga sa kanya, ‘Yes, Your Majesty, you have got really been warning us about this for a really very long time,’ So yeah, nicely sabi niya, ‘however no one was listening,'” he added.—LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
