Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) and Northern Ireland, Zita Sabah Benson, has officially presented her letters of credence to His Majesty King Charles III.
The important ceremony was held at the St James’s Palace, marking a historic milestone as the country’s first female High Commission to the UK since independence in 1957.
In a very colourful Kente dressed designed with Ghana’s colours and the black star, Mrs Benson is seen being given a queen’s treatment accompanied by a delegation from the Commission.
The diplomat and lawyer, marks another first as the first Ghanaian High Commissioner to be received by the British monarch at the Palace since 1910, during the reign of King Edward VII.
It comes months after Mrs Benson was appointed together with others as Ghana’s representatives to several countries where it has missions.
This not the first time she is serving as Ghana’s representative abroad. In the past, the former Minister for Information, was appointed as ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2014 to 2016 by President John Mahama.
It comes barely a month after her counterpart in the United States (US), also engaged in a similar ceremony at the Roosevelt Office of the White House, where he joined 14 other newly appointed ambassadors dispatched to the States.
He was the first to be received by the President.
At the meeting with President Donald Trump, Ambassador Victor Emmanuel Smith, was praised for dressing sharply forcing the US president to gleefully remark “look at this good looking man”.
By Gifty Boateng