Thousands welcome emotional King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla to Buckingham Palace: Royals wave from window of Rolls Royce as it cruises down The Mall.
An emotional King Charles III was greeted by way of lots of well-wishers as he arrived at Buckingham Palace nowadays the place he will meet with representatives from the Commonwealth - while his mom Queen Elizabeth II's coffin embarks on her historic remaining journey from Balmoral to Edinburgh, then onto Westminster Abbey for her nation funeral.
Crowds lining the length of The Mall - including excited younger children sat on top of the shoulders of mother and father attempting to take images with their phones - cheered and waved at Britain's new monarch as he used to be driven in his kingdom Rolls-Royce from Clarence House thru the Palace gates at round 1pm, accompanied through a motorcade of four vehicles and four police motorbikes.
The King was observed rapidly after arriving at Buckingham Palace by way of his spouse Camilla, Queen Consort, who used to be also cheered via mourners.





Charles is assembly Commonwealth established secretary Patricia Scotland in the 1844 Room at 2pm today, before attending a reception with High Commissioners and their spouses from nations the place he is head of state at the royal residence's Bow Room. Then at 3.30pm, the King - who was formally proclaimed at St James's Palace yesterday - receives the Dean of Windsor.
Guests will consist of Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and High Commissioners for Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, New Zealand, St Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Honorary Consul of Tuvalu and the Acting High Commissioner for Australia.
Next week, the King and Queen will embark on a tour of the 4 domestic international locations in the run-up to his late mother's nation funeral at Westminster Abbey and burial at St George's Chapel in Windsor, following her death at Balmoral on Thursday aged 96.



Today, the King was once proclaimed as head of country at a swathe of ceremonies across Britain and the Commonwealth - from Edinburgh, Cardiff and Hillsborough castles, and the devolved parliaments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, to the far-flung capitals of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The late Queen's eldest son, who robotically grew to become King three days ago, used to be yesterday formally proclaimed at a ancient ceremony in St James's Palace in London, following a assembly of the historic Norman-era Accession Council.
In Edinburgh, huge crowds gathered down the Royal Mile as the King's Body Guard for Scotland, regarded as the Royal Company of Archers, and the defend of honour marched from the Castle Esplanade to Mercat Cross. They have been joined via troopers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland, where a drill is taking location in the front of the go in Edinburgh.



Rain beat down on officers at the proclamation match in Hillsborough, as a 40-second fanfare was sounded by means of a bugler after the remaining spherical of the 21-gun salute was once fired earlier than the band of the Royal Irish Regiment then performed one verse of God Save the King. Guests at the match - together with Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long, Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie and Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister - joined collectively and stated three cheers for Charles III.





And at Cardiff Castle, extra than 2,000 humans witnessed Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary, Tom Lloyd, and the Lord-Lieutenant of South Glamorgan, Morfudd Meredith, read the proclamation of the new King in English and Welsh. Prior to the Proclamation, 26 men of the 3rd Battalion the Royal Welsh - supported by the Band of the Royal Welsh - were marching from City Hall at 11.25am alongside the Boulevard de Nantes, North Road and Duke Street to the castle. They were accompanied through the regimental mascot, a Welsh billy goat known as Lance Corporal Shenkin IV, and Goat Major Sergeant Mark Jackson.

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