Royal fan Samsu Miah from Bangladesh gets a chance to meet King Charles III
It's a dream come true for Samsu Miah, 67, a lifelong royal fan who moved to Wales from Bangladesh more than 50 years ago.
In his words, BBC reports that he is very happy and excited about the opportunity he never thought he would get.
"I'm very, very happy and excited. I never thought I would see the King in my life," Samsu said.
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Samsu Miah will accompany his son Mohammed Alamgir Ahmed who has been invited to attend a garden party in Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.
Mohammed Alamgir, 42, from Cardiff, has received a Coronation Champions Award for volunteer work. He is one of 500 people - 29 in Wales - to receive the Coronation Champions award.
He was nominated for his community work, including volunteering with children and young people, at the Dar-Ul-Isra Mosque in Cathays, Cardiff.
Samsu, who grew up in a small fishing village in Bangladesh, moved to Cardiff in 1969 - just in time to travel to Caernarfon, Gwynedd, for the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales the same year.
"I saw the Queen and Prince of Wales, they said 'hello how are you?', so I'm proud, you know, that I've seen both of them in my life," Shamsu told BBC.
Samsu's son, Mohammed Alamgir runs a technology recruitment company.
He remembers growing up in the family home with pictures of the royal family next to pictures of himself and his siblings on the wall.
Mohammed Alamgir said, "It's an honour really, I feel proud and humbled by it. It's also a big step because people from the black and ethnic minority community are not represented as much in these sorts of things.
"Myself at the garden party, with my dad as a guest, it's going to be great, whether we meet the King or not it's going to be great."
However, Mohammed is not Samsu's only son to have a royal connection.
Dr Abdul-Azim Ahmed, the general secretary of the Muslim Council of Wales, was one of a handful of people to greet the King in Llandaff when he arrived in Wales to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
"I'm very proud, one son going to see the King in a garden party and another went to receive them, so I'm very proud and happy and I think it is a very amazing thing," Samsu said.
