Lauren Frere

We're grateful when a court sees that the right thing has been done.

We'll continue to focus on getting dangerous criminals, murderers and rapists and drug traffickers out of this country and bringing them to justice.

At the start of the 19th century, the British crown was likely the biggest buyer of enslaved people.

King Charles has previously expressed what he called personal sorrow at the suffering that caused and called for, quote, creative ways to right inequalities that endure.

But no royal has ever formally apologized for their ancestors' role in the slave trade.

Now, some British politicians, academics, and activists are renewing calls for them to do so after publication of a book called The Crown's Silence, in which historian Brooke Newman lists the atrocities the royals committed for centuries against Africans sold into slavery.

The book says the royals continued to profit from the slave trade even after the British Empire abolished it.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.

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Police say the attacker drove a car into a crowd of people outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester.

They say he then got out and stabbed at least one person, possibly a security guard, before being shot himself by police.

In addition to those killed, police say at least three people are in serious condition.