King’s return to Buckingham Palace

Charles, the longest serving heir to the throne lasting 70 years, in British history, is now King The 73-year-old King was throughout his mother’s long reign, witnessed generations of world leaders, come and go, including 15 UK prime ministers and 14 US presidents.

The moment the Queen died, the throne passed immediately and without ceremony to the heir, Charles, the former Prince of Wales. He will be known as King Charles III.  Although Prince William is heir to the throne, he will not have automatically become Prince of Wales, which will have to be conferred on him by his father. He has inherited his father’s title of Duke of Cornwall – William and  Kate are now titled Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge. Charles’ wife, Camila, becomes the Queen Consort consort is the term used for the spouse of the monarch. It is expected that Charles will be officially proclaimed King on Saturday, which will happen at St James’s Palace in London, in front of a ceremonial body known as the Accession Council, whose members are from the Privy Council, a group of senior MPs, past and present and peers, as well as some senior civil servants, Commonwealth high commissioners, and the Lord Mayor of London.

He will call:” God Save the King”, and for the first time since 1952, the national anthem will be played with the words “God Save the King”.

 

Gun salutes will be fired in Hyde Park, the Tower of London, and from naval ships and the proclamation announcing Charles as the King will be read in Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast.

At the coronation, Charles is formally crowned, and for the past 900 years the coronation had been held in Westminster Abbey – William the conqueror was the first monarch to be crowned there, and Charles will the 40^th.

 

At the Anglican religious service, carried out by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who will place St Edward’s Crown on Charles’s head- a solid gold crown, dating back from 1661. The centerpiece of the Crown Jewels weighing 2.23kg almost 5lbs, at the Tower of London, and is only worn by the monarch at the moment of the coronation itself.

Charles has become the head of the Commonwealth, an association of 56 independent countries and 2.4 billion people for 14  of these countries, as well as UK, the king is head of state. The Commonwealth countries are Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, St Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, New Zealand and Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.