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King Charles III begins reign amid mourning
 
By: News Editor
Fri, 9 Sep 2022   ||   United Kingdom, Buckingham Palace
 

King Charles III on Friday is ready to address his mourning subjects on the first full day of his New Reign as Britain and the World commemorate the extraordinary life of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

Charles at 73 yrs is the oldest monarch to ascend the Throne of the United Kingdom, following the death of his cherished mother at her Scottish Estate of Balmoral on Thursday.

He is due to return to London from Balmoral, where the 96-year-old Queen died peacefully after a year-long period of ill-health and decline, at the culmination of a record-breaking reign of 70 years.

Charles in a statement said;

“During this period of mourning and change, my family and I will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which the queen was so widely held.''

Charles’s Inaugural Address is set to be pre-recorded and expected to be broadcasted Friday evening, as part of  the ten days of plans honed over Decades by Buckingham Palace and the UK government.

The New King is also expected to hold his first audience with Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was only appointed on Tuesday in one of the Queen’s last official acts before her death.

Truss acclaimed the “second Elizabethan age”, five centuries after the celebrated first.

“We offer him (Charles) our loyalty and devotion just as his mother devoted so much to so many for so long,” she said in a televised address Thursday. “God save the king.”

Charles is also due to meet Officials in charge of the elaborate arrangements for his mother’s lavish State funeral, which will be attended by Crowned and elected Heads of State from around the world.

The New King will decide on the length of the Royal household’s period of mourning, which is expected to last a month, while the UK government will observe at least ten days of official remembrance, when limited business is conducted.

Gun salutes one round for every year of the Queen’s life  will be fired Friday across Hyde Park in Central London and from the Tower of London on the River Thames.

Muffled Church bells will toll at Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral and Windsor Castle, among other places and Union Flags will fly at half-mast.

Truss and other Senior Ministers are set to attend a Public Remembrance Service at St Paul’s, while the UK parliament will start two days of Special Tributes.

The Queen’s death and its Ceremonial aftermath comes as the Government strives to rush through emergency Legislation to tackle the kind of war-fuelled Economic Privation that marked the start of Elizabeth’s reign in 1952.

 

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