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King Charles Speaks Out After Queen Elizabeth II's Passing
King Charles is already embracing his new relation arsenic a leader of the United Kingdom.
One time aft the death of his parent Queen Elizabeth II, Charles joined his wife Camilla for their archetypal public outing arsenic King and Queen Consort.
The mates was photographed extracurricular of Buckingham Palace on Sept. 9, viewing flowers and tributes left for Her Majesty and gathering with members of the public.
They were by the Queen's broadside successful Balmoral, Scotland, amid quality of her decease and returned back to London connected Sept. 9. Charles volition springiness a pre-recorded TV code to the nationalist aboriginal successful the day.
As the Queen's eldest son, Charles became King instantly pursuing her passing astatine property 96.
Charles, 73, soon paid tribute to the precocious monarch. "The decease of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is simply a infinitesimal of the top sadness for maine and each members of my family," helium said successful a statement shared by Buckingham Palace connected Sept. 8. "We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother."
He added, "I cognize her nonaccomplishment volition beryllium profoundly felt passim the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless radical astir the world."
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As for Camilla, who Charles wed successful 2005, Queen Elizabeth explicitly shared her privation for her to beryllium known arsenic the Queen Consort erstwhile the clip came.
"When, successful the fullness of time, my lad Charles becomes King, I cognize you volition springiness him and his woman Camilla the aforesaid enactment that you person fixed me," Elizabeth said successful February, "and it is my sincere privation that, erstwhile that clip comes, Camilla volition beryllium known arsenic Queen Consort arsenic she continues her ain loyal service."
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Prince William and Kate Middleton are besides stepping into caller roles, with a rubric alteration to match. Their societal media accounts have already been updated to reflect their titles as The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge.
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