“I shall endeavour to serve you with loyalty, respect and love”: King Charles III addresses the nation for the first time.
The King opened and closed with tributes to his “darling mama”: “Queen Elizabeth was a life well lived, a promise with destiny kept, and she is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service I renew to you all today.
Charles also shed light on further changes taking place within the royal family. As previously announced, Camilla, formerly the Duchess of Cornwall, will become Queen Consort, “in recognition of her own loyal public service”. “I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much,” he said.
While Charles automatically became the King following the Queen’s death, he will only be officially proclaimed as monarch on Saturday during an Accession Council. In all likelihood, his formal Coronation in Westminster Abbey will take place next year, making him the 40th monarch since William the Conqueror to ascend to the British throne. The service is expected to be more pared down than the Queen’s, in accordance with Charles’s wishes for a more streamlined monarchy.
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