King Charles will travel to Auschwitz later this month to attend an event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. The commemoration in Poland on 27 January will be the King's first overseas trip this year.

Britain's King Charles will visit Poland later this month to attend commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp in World War Two.

King Charles is set to visit Auschwitz on Jan. 27, to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camp. The trip will be the monarch's fifth to Poland