A photograph of King Charles III and Diana, the former Princess of Wales, has been taken down at St Peter’s Church ahead of his visit to Bermuda this week.

Peter Sheridan, for the Daily Mail, reported that the photograph, depicting Charles and Diana during his last visit to the church in 1982, had been replaced with one of him opening Bermuda’s Parliament in 1970.

The Reverend Canon Thomas Nisbett Jr, the priest-in-charge at the parish, said: “The ladies of the church thought it would be more sensitive if that reminder of the past wasn’t there — and one doesn’t argue with the ladies of the church.”

King Charles and Diana married on July 29, 1981, and divorced 15 years later.

The Princess died in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in France on August 31, 1997.

King Charles, who is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, is set to arrive in Bermuda on Thursday for his first official visit to a British Overseas Territory as sovereign.

He will visit King’s Square, St Peter’s Church, the oldest Anglican Church outside the British Isles, Trunk Island and the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

The trip also marks the first visit to the island by a reigning king.

Mr Nisbett said: “He will be given the opportunity to pray, if he wishes. He is, after all, the Defender of the Faith.”

King Charles will also meet local artists and dignitaries, tour the Queen’s Exhibition Hall in the National Museum of Bermuda in Dockyard, officially open the Great Bay coastguard station and learn about a new space-tracking telescope project at Cooper’s Island.