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He’s wrapping up his tour of Australia and Samoa on an emotional note.

King Charles and Queen Camilla’s tour of Australia and Samoa has been marked with highs and lows—namely a protestor and an incident with an alpaca as well as an homage to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. As the king and queen wrapped up their trip, they attended an event in Samoa with delegates from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting where Charles opened up about something he’d love to do, but probably won’t ever accomplish because of his health condition and his age.

The party, which was held at Robert Louis Stevenson’s home, included a toast from the king where he explained that he’d love to visit all 56 commonwealth nations and shared that he and his family feel a special connection to all the countries, even as “dark clouds gathered” amid his current tour.

Charles asked world leaders to “commit with all our hearts to learning its lessons” and urged every nation to take a moment to learn about each other’s history “to guide us to make the right choices in the future.”

“As we look around the world and consider its many deeply concerning challenges, let us choose within our Commonwealth family the language of community and respect, and reject the language of division,” he added. “None of us can change the past. But we can commit, with all our hearts to learning its lessons and to finding creative ways to right inequalities that endure.”

Charles promised to champion unity and peace and hoped that world leaders across the globe, Commonwealth or not, would join him.

“For my part, I can assure you today that for however many years god grants me, I will join you and the people of the Commonwealth on every step of this journey,” he shared. “Let us learn from the lessons of the past. Let us be proud of who we are today. And together, let us forge a future of harmony with nature, and between ourselves, that our children and our grandchildren deserve.”

He also added that it was a “lifetime aspiration” for him to visit every Commonwealth nation, but that his medical team was keeping him from fulfilling that dream—as well as the fact that he was probably too old to do it now, saying he couldn’t believe “how unbelievably old I am” when he arrived in Samoa earlier in the trip. His first visit to the island nation was back in the 1970s and he noted that this return trip “raised my spirits to the roof and made me feel unbelievably happy.”