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  • BREAKING: Charles III formally proclaimed King

    BREAKING: Charles III formally proclaimed King

    Charles III has been proclaimed Britain’s new king formally in a historic event televised for the first time.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Charles III was proclaimed king during an elaborate ceremony at St James’ Palace, London on Saturday.

    Charles was proclaimed king after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II was formally announced by the Accession Council.

    About 200 people gathered in the room all then said ‘God save the King’ before documents were signed.

    Flags that were lowered in mourning for the late Queen will fly full-mast for a short time, BBC reports.

    Recall that yesterday, the King pledged to follow his “darling mama’s” life of service in his first address to the nation.

    The Queen, the UK’s longest-reigning monarch, died peacefully at Balmoral Castle on Thursday afternoon at the age of 96.

  • British Cabinet ministers to have audience with King Charles III

    British Cabinet ministers to have audience with King Charles III

    Members of the British Cabinet will have their first meeting with King Charles III on Saturday, just days after the country’s Prime Minister Liz Truss formed her new government.

    Senior ministers will attend the Accession Council at St James’s Palace in London where Charles will be formally proclaimed sovereign.

    Later they will travel to Buckingham Palace for an audience with the monarch.

    Truss, who was invited to form a government by the late Queen on Tuesday, had her initial audience with the King on Friday.

    The prime minister curtsied as she was ushered in by a Palace aide for the first of what will be their regular weekly encounters.

    As she offered her condolences, the king shook her hand and thanked her, saying: “You are very kind for coming – I know how busy you are.”

    He added: “But it’s been so touching this afternoon when we arrived here, all those people come to give their condolences.”

    Truss again repeated: “Your Majesty, my very greatest sympathies.”

    He replied: “You are very kind. It was the moment I have been dreading, as I know a lot of people have.

    “We’ll try to keep everything going. Come, come have a seat.”

    Earlier, the prime minister had led tributes to the Queen in the House of Commons as she urged the country to support its new monarch.

  • Charles’ succession stirs Caribbean calls for reparations, removal of monarch as head of state

    Charles’ succession stirs Caribbean calls for reparations, removal of monarch as head of state

    The accession of King Charles to the British throne has stirred renewed calls from politicians and activists for former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their head of state and for Britain to pay slavery reparations.

    Charles succeeds his mother, Queen Elizabeth, who ruled for 70 years and died on Thursday afternoon.

    The prime minister of Jamaica said his country would mourn Elizabeth, and his counterpart in Antigua and Barbuda ordered flags to half-staff until the day of her burial.

    But in some quarters there are doubts about the role a distant monarch should play in the 21st century.

    Earlier this year, some Commonwealth leaders expressed unease at a summit in Kigali, Rwanda, about the passage of leadership of the 56-nation club from Elizabeth to Charles.

    And an eight-day tour in March by now heir-to-the-throne Prince William and his wife, Kate, to Belize, Jamaica, and the Bahamas was marked by calls for reparation payments and an apology for slavery.

    “As the role of the monarchy changes, we expect this can be an opportunity to advance discussions of reparations for our region,” Niambi Hall-Campbell, a 44-year-old academic who chairs the Bahamas National Reparations Committee, said Thursday.

    Hall-Campbell sent condolences to the Queen’s family and noted Charles’ acknowledgment of the “appalling atrocity of slavery” at a ceremony last year marking the end of British rule as Barbados became a republic.

    She said she hopes Charles would lead in a way reflecting the “justice required of the times. And that justice is reparatory justice.”

    More than 10 million Africans were shackled into the Atlantic slave trade by European nations between the 15th and 19th centuries. Those who survived the brutal voyage were forced to labor on plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas.

    Jamaican reparations advocate Rosalea Hamilton said Charles’ comments at the Kigali conference about his personal sorrow over slavery offered “some degree of hope that he will learn from the history, understand the painful impact that many nations have endured ’til today” and address the need for reparations.

    The new king did not mention reparations in the Kigali speech.

    The Advocates Network, which Hamilton coordinates, published an open letter calling for “apologies and reparations” during William and Kate’s visit.

    The Queen’s grandchildren have the chance to lead the reparations conversation, Hamilton added.

    Jamaica’s government last year announced plans to ask Britain for compensation for forcibly transporting an estimated 600,000 Africans to work on sugar cane and banana plantations that created fortunes for British slave holders.

    “Whoever will take over the position should be asked to allow the royal family to pay African people reparations,” said David Denny, general secretary of the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, from Barbados.

    “We should all work towards removing the royal family as head of state of our nations,” he said.

    Jamaica has signaled it may soon follow Barbados in ditching royal rule. Both remain members of the Commonwealth.

    An August survey showed 56 per cent of Jamaicans favor removing the British monarch as the head of state.

    Mikael Phillips, an opposition member of Jamaica’s parliament, in 2020 filed a motion backing the removal.

    “I am hoping as the prime minister had said in one of his expressions, that he would move faster when there is a new monarch in place,” Phillips said on Thursday.

    Allen Chastanet, a former St. Lucia prime minister and now leader of the opposition, told Reuters he backed what he said was a “general” movement toward republicanism in his country.

    “I certainly at this point would support becoming a republic,” he said.

  • How kingship will affect my life – King Charles III opens up in first official speech

    How kingship will affect my life – King Charles III opens up in first official speech

    New Britain’s monarch, King Charles III has opened up on how accession to the throne will affect his life personally, saying it will no longer be possible for him to give so much of his time and energies to the charities and issues for which he cares so deeply.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports King Charles III disclosed this on Friday in a televised address as the UK marks the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, paying tribute to her in an address to the nation.

    King Charles said: “My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities. It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others”.

    Speaking on his reign, the new King pledged to uphold the values of his mother the Queen, saying: “As the Queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, I too now solemnly pledge myself throughout the remaining time God grants me, to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation.

    “Wherever you may live in the United Kingdom or in the realms and territories across the world and whatever may be your background and beliefs I shall endeavour to serve you with loyalty, respect and love, as I have throughout my life”.

    Reflecting on his mother’s accession in 1952, the King said: “When The Queen came to the throne, Britain and the world were still coping with the privations and aftermath of the Second World War, and still living by the conventions of earlier times. In the course of the last 70 years we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths.

    “The institutions of the State have changed in turn. But, through all changes and challenges, our nation and the wider family of Realms – of whose talents, traditions and achievements I am so inexpressibly proud – have prospered and flourished.

    “Our values have remained, and must remain, constant. The role and the duties of Monarchy also remain, as does the Sovereign’s particular relationship and responsibility towards the Church of England – the Church in which my own faith is so deeply rooted.

    “In that faith, and the values it inspires, I have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others, and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government”.

    Speaking about his mother’s upcoming funeral, the King said: “In a little over a week’s time we will come together as a nation, as a Commonwealth and indeed a global community, to lay my beloved mother to rest.

    “In our sorrow, let us remember and draw strength from the light of her example. On behalf of all my family, I can only offer the most sincere and heartfelt thanks for your condolences and support. They mean more to me than I can ever possibly express”.

    Meanwhile, in the address, while expressing his love for his youngest son, the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, King Charles III disclosed that his son, William will become Prince of Wales.

    “I express my love for Prince Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas. As my heir, William now assumes the Scottish titles which have meant so much to me. He succeeds me as Duke of Cornwall and takes on the responsibilities for the Duchy of Cornwall which I have undertaken for more than five decades.

    “Today, I am proud to create him Prince of Wales, Tywysog Cymru, the country whose title I have been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty. With Catherine beside him, our new Prince and Princess of Wales will, I know, continue to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given.

    “This is also a time of change for my family. I count on the loving help of my darling wife Camilla. In recognition of her own loyal public service since our marriage 17 years ago, she becomes my Queen Consort. I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much,” King Charles III said.

    The King ended his address with the following words: “And to my darling Mama, as you begin your last great journey to join my dear late Papa, I want simply to say this: thank you. Thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years. May ‘flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest’”.

  • We are all devastated by Queen Elizabeth’s death – PM Liz Truss

    We are all devastated by Queen Elizabeth’s death – PM Liz Truss

    Britain’s Prime Minister (PM), Liz Truss has described the death of Queen Elizabeth II as a huge shock to the nation and to the world.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Truss made this known in a statement shortly after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

    The statement reads: “We are all devastated by the news we have just heard from Balmoral. The death of Her Majesty The Queen is a huge shock to the nation and to the world.

    “Queen Elizabeth II was the rock on which modern Britain was built. Our country has grown and flourished under her reign. Britain is the great country it is today because of her.

    “She ascended the throne just after the Second World War. She championed the development of the Commonwealth – from a small group of seven countries to a family of 56 nations spanning every continent of the world.

    “We are now a modern, thriving, dynamic nation. Through thick and thin, Queen Elizabeth II provided us with the stability and the strength that we needed.

    “She was the very spirit of Great Britain – and that spirit will endure. She has been our longest-ever reigning monarch. It is an extraordinary achievement to have presided with such dignity and grace for 70 years.

    “Her life of service stretched beyond most of our living memories. In return, she was loved and admired by the people in the United Kingdom and all around the world.

    “She has been a personal inspiration to me and to many Britons. Her devotion to duty is an example to us all.

    “Earlier this week, at 96, she remained determined to carry out her duties as she appointed me as her 15th Prime Minister.

    “Throughout her life she has visited more than 100 countries and she has touched the lives of millions around the world. In the difficult days ahead, we will come together with our friends… ….across the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the world… …to celebrate her extraordinary lifetime of service.

    “It is a day of great loss, but Queen Elizabeth II leaves a great legacy. Today the Crown passes – as it is has done for more than a thousand years – to our new monarch, our new head of state:

    “His Majesty King Charles III. With the King’s family, we mourn the loss of his mother. And as we mourn, we must come together as a people to support him. To help him bear the awesome responsibility that he now carries for us all.

    “We offer him our loyalty and devotion just as his mother devoted so much to so many for so long. And with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country, – exactly as Her Majesty would have wished – by saying the words… God save the King”.

  • Britain’s new monarch, King Charles reacts over Queen’s death

    Britain’s new monarch, King Charles reacts over Queen’s death

    Britains new monarch, King Charles has reacted to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully on Thursday.

    In a statement shortly after the death of the British longest-serving monarch, King Charles described the moment as a “moment of the greatest sadness”.

    The statement reads: “The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family.

    “We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much loved Mother. I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.

    “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”.