 Britain's Prince Charles has arrived in Barbados as the Caribbean nation prepares for a celebration mark in the founding of a republic and the removal of the Queen as sovereign cuts an imperial ties some 400 years after English ships were first arrived. Barbados are one independence from Britain in 1966 but has retained or retained Queen Elizabeth as its official sovereign. She will be replaced with a Barbadian president in an inauguration ceremony to be held when a country celebrates independence on Tuesday. It will mark the first time in three decades that the Queen is removed as head of state. Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, proclaimed itself a republic in 1992.