16 September 2024,   23:03
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Prince Charles has been made King of the United Kingdom following Queen Elizabeth’s death

Queen Elizabeth II has passed away at the age of 96, which means Prince Charles is officially King Charles.

Despite the fact that King Charles’s coronation won’t happen for months, he became king the moment Queen Elizabeth passed away. As Sam Knight reported in a length piece for The Guardian on what will happen in the days following the Queen’s death, Charles’s siblings will “kiss his hands” the moment he is the king. Meanwhile, he’ll give an address to the nation at 6 p.m.

Tomorrow at 10 a.m, Charles will be proclaimed a king (although it bears repeating, he officially became a king the moment his mother passed) by the “accession council”, and then he’ll meet with prime minister Liz Truss and other government officials. Two days after this, he’ll reportedly go on a brief tour of the UK.

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