Indigenous leaders in Canada demand a royal apology.

Indigenous elders met with Prince Charles in Canada and urged the Queen to apologize for the “assimilation and genocide” of indigenous youngsters.

According to RoseAnne Archibald, national leader of the Assembly of First Nations, the prince “acknowledged” mistakes in dealing with indigenous people.

Canada is grappling with a controversy in which indigenous children were either killed or abused in residential schools.

There has been a clamour for the Queen to apologize over the incident.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are on a three-day tour of Canada, where the Queen is head of state, to commemorate the Queen’s 96th birthday.

Ms Archibald requested an apology from Prince Charles on behalf of the Queen.

“I begged his mother, the Queen, the head of the Anglican church, for an apology for whatever transpired in the institutions of assimilation and genocide,” she stated. I also requested an apology from the Crown for the Crown’s shortcomings in that relationship, in our treaty relationship with them.”