Prince Charles fears Rwanda controversy over next week’s visit to Kigali will destroy his Commonwealth message

prince charles but afraid of row Rwanda His Commonwealth message will be dropped from the asylum scheme when he travels to East Africa next week – after being branded Preeti PatelMigrant policy ‘horrendous’.

The Prince of Wales will represent Queen When leaders gather in Kigali for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.

This is the first gathering he has attended since he was named as the next head of the Commonwealth in April 2018.

But the royal is concerned that the dispute over the government’s Rwanda policy, which allows some migrants to cross the Channel on a one-way ticket into the African country, will affect their travel.

Risking a major collision with supposedly No 10, he said giving one-way tickets to Africa to channel migrants last week was ‘horrendous’.

A source told The Telegraph that it was ‘quite strange’ to travel to Rwandans for the meeting amid a debate on policy.

Clarence House is aware that Charles may be asked questions about the plan during private bilateral meetings and has not ruled out mentioning it during the visit.

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Staff members believed to be the first to take migrants into Rwanda earlier this week boarded a plane

The Prince of Wales will be the first royal to visit Rwanda and is said to be ‘very keen’ to focus on the challenges facing the 54 members of the Commonwealth.

Another source said the Commonwealth message is difficult to cut through at the ‘best of times’.

Charles will be joined by wife Camilla and the couple will attend several events and a fashion show.

The Daily Mail has learned that there has been friction between the heir to the throne and Boris Johnson, with each grumbling about being late for official appointments.

The allegations of tension between the two men echo reports of strained relations between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister.

It comes as Priti Patel vowed this week that flights to Rwanda would take off within weeks as cabinet ministers urged her to ignore Strasbourg judges, who blocked plans at the eleventh hour.

On the same day that the flight plans were finished, Charles hosted an engagement at Buckingham Palace celebrating the Commonwealth’s contribution to Britain.

Lord Woolley of Woodford, founding director of Operation Black Vote, said it was ‘very clear’ that the Prince of Wales cares about the Commonwealth and wants the talks to be ‘focused on that’.

But he acknowledged that ‘others have other agendas’.

Charles talks to actress, author and politician Floella Benjamin at a reception at Buckingham Palace

Prince of Wales shakes hands with Arsenal and England footballer Bukayo Saka during engagement

The Tories have suggested the views of the European Court of Human Rights should be disregarded after the Home Secretary made an outrageous statement to lawmakers that the government was still ‘committed’ to the controversial policy.

Ms Patel said the European Court of Human Rights’ intervention was ‘astonishing’ and ‘disappointing’ as well as condemning the ‘opaque nature’ of the ruling – but stressed that she had not ruled that The offers were invalid.

She insisted that the ‘usual suspects’ and ‘mob’ could not be allowed to dictate.

The bullish trend came as the Tories expressed anger at the ECHR, with one MP saying the UK should now ‘get in touch with these b***ards’.

Any attempt to circumvent the ECHR’s directives will likely lead to the outrage of lawyers, rebellion in the domestic courts, and repercussions in the Council of Europe.

A Home Office source said it was not something they were currently looking at, although conservatives in the past have considered downplaying the status of the decisions.

Lawyers insist the domestic courts only ‘take account’ of the views of the ECHR anyway.