State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi met Britain’s Queen Elizabeth for lunch on Friday at Buckingham Palace.
The Nobel laureate Suu Kyi — who serves as Burma’s foreign minister while also being de facto head of its civilian government — later met Prince Charles, heir to the throne, and his wife Camilla.
Prince William, Charles’s elder son, attended the queen’s lunch with Suu Kyi, the palace said.
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Suu Kyi, who took power in April 2016 as part of a transition from military rule, has denied ethnic cleansing in the Muslim-majority northern Arakan State.
Attacks on Burmese border guard posts in October last year by a previously unknown insurgent group ignited the biggest crisis so far for Suu Kyi, with more than 75,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh in the ensuing army crackdown.
