To a blast of trumpets, King Charles slipped into the function that was his future
“It’s the second I’ve been dreading,” the brand new King mentioned to the brand new prime minister on Friday, “however you do attempt to hold issues going.” Within the historical courtyard of St James’s Palace, and amongst 200 assembled privy counsellors, the inevitability of that truth turned legislation: the reign of King Charles III was formally proclaimed. The ceremony of accession was witnessed for the primary time by tv cameras. Viewers internationally watched Penny Mordaunt, chief of the privy council since final Wednesday, preside over a ceremony unchanged for 300 years. The brand new King addressed an viewers together with six of the 14 former prime ministers who served underneath his mom, their heads bobbing allegiance like extras in a Holbein portray.” – Observer
- Inside historic ceremony that noticed Charles proclaimed King – Solar on Sunday
- Queen’s coffin to start journey to Edinburgh – Sunday Categorical
- Princes’ awkward truce to honour Queen – Sunday Instances
- William and Kate transfer one step nearer to their future – Sunday Instances
- ‘Fab 4’ reunite in sorrow for shock Windsor walkabout – Sunday Telegraph
- Putin wins race to be first world chief to congratulate Charles III – Sunday Telegraph
- Tens of millions will line the streets to salute finish of Elizabethan period – Sunday Instances
- US mourns the Queen as it could a president – Sunday Instances
- The true King Charles III: up early for breakfast however by no means a boiled egg in sight – Sunday Instances
- His Majesty will change tack however don’t anticipate him to chill on the local weather disaster – Sunday Instances
- How Group Charles, the tight-knit group of trusted aides, helped the King hit the bottom working – Sunday Telegraph
- Did the Queen finish republicanism in Britain? – Sunday Instances
- She adored Scotland, however the Union will wobble with out her – Sunday Instances
- My time with Sophie Wessex, the ‘Queen’s favorite’ – Sunday Instances
- She had completed tidying all the things up after which merely let go – Sunday Instances
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King Charles meets Truss and cupboard members
“Liz Truss took her senior ministers to Buckingham Palace to be acquired by the sovereign for the primary time. He was launched to members by the Prime Minister as they lined up contained in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace. The King hung out speaking to new Overseas Secretary James Cleverly and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as they had been flanked by the prime minister. Following the cupboard audiences, the King hung out assembly the leaders of opposition events, together with Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer. The conferences passed off on Saturday afternoon following the Accession Council ceremony formally proclaiming Charles III as King this morning.” – Upday Information
MPs pledge allegiance as atheist Starmer avoids reference to God
“Sir Keir Starmer pledged his loyalty to the King on Saturday by selecting a type of phrases that averted referring to God. The Labour chief joined Liz Truss and different senior MPs in pledging their allegiance to the brand new King as Parliament met for a uncommon Saturday sitting, earlier than the Cupboard was acquired by the sovereign at Buckingham Palace for the primary time. Throughout the swearing in ceremony, MPs have an possibility of taking an oath or making a “solemn affirmation”. Sir Keir, who’s an atheist, was one in every of a variety of MPs who opted for the affirmation. He mentioned: “I do solemnly, sincerely and really declare and affirm that I can be trustworthy and bear true allegiance to his majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors based on legislation.” Penny Mordaunt, the Chief of the Home of Commons, who presided over Saturday’s Accession Council as appearing Lord President of the Council, additionally selected the affirmation.” – Sunday Telegraph
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Truss knew earlier than she stood up within the Commons that Queen Elizabeth was gravely sick
“It was one in every of Liz Truss’s most vociferous critics who introduced into sharp focus the load resting on the brand new Prime Minister’s shoulders. Ian Blackford, the Scottish Nationwide Get together chief, made some extent of telling the Commons that his ideas had been with Ms Truss, who “simply days into her time period in workplace” was “having to come back to phrases with the enormousness of the lack of the pinnacle of state, and present the management that’s now required in her place”. It had been believed that the primary Ms Truss knew of Queen Elizabeth II’s declining well being was when Nadhim Zahawi, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, had urgently briefed the Prime Minister following a Commons assertion on her vitality rescue package deal, 24 hours earlier. However The Telegraph understands that when Ms Truss entered the Commons…she already knew that the monarch’s well being was quickly declining, and that her loss of life was believed to be imminent.” – Sunday Telegraph
- The King and Truss to tour the UK to ‘share the grief’ of the late Queen’s loss of life – Sunday Telegraph
- The Commons was stuffed with fury then information got here in regards to the Queen – Observer
- Fears of parliamentary ‘paralysis’ as Queen’s funeral leaves events in limbo – Observer
Behind the scenes in No 10 when Truss was hit by a whirlwind
“Nobody in Downing Avenue thought a lot of it when a routine briefing for the brand new prime minister was cancelled on Wednesday afternoon. Liz Truss was busy together with her plans for an vitality value freeze and her ministerial reshuffle. Future historians, nonetheless, will see that at 2.30pm that day she was attributable to get a “bridges briefing”, the codename for the preparations for the loss of life of the Queen. “[The routine bridges briefing] was cancelled due to the vitality announcement and the reshuffle,” a No 10 supply mentioned. “Little did we all know.” Lower than 24 hours later Truss was on the dispatch field, giving MPs the define of her plans to freeze family vitality payments — at a value estimated to be far in extra of £100 billion — when she was handed a notice by Nadhim Zahawi, the Cupboard Workplace minister. It mentioned Buckingham Palace was attributable to challenge a press release in regards to the Queen’s well being. Truss had received to her ft understanding the Queen’s loss of life was “imminent”. – Sunday Instances
- Truss makes Cupboard Room her official research as a part of No 10 revamp – Sunday Telegraph
- PM accused of ‘ideological purge’ in sacking of high civil servant – FT
- Cupboard heavyweights crown the success of post-colonial African migrants – Sunday Instances
Ukraine’s lightning push by Russian traces raises hope of a turning level
“Russian forces suffered their worst defeat since March yesterday once they had been pressured to desert their most important foothold within the northeast of Ukraine to keep away from encirclement in a fast counter-offensive by Kyiv’s troops. Navy analysts spoke of a potential turning level within the battle. Moscow tried to painting the hasty retreat from a number of important strategic strongholds close to Kharkiv as an orderly redeployment. Ukraine broke by one of many battle’s most hotly contested entrance traces, taking again dozens of cities and villages in a shock offensive that started 5 days in the past. “It’s of historic significance,” mentioned Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of battle research at King’s Faculty London. “It could be a tipping level, we don’t know fairly how it will work out however there’s plenty of panic and anxiousness amongst Russian troops proper now.” – Sunday Instances
- Advance leaves Russian forces in disarray – FT
- Russian retreat – Solar on Sunday
Cable reveals he suffered stroke when Liberal Democrat chief
“Vince Cable suffered a minor stroke when he was chief of the Liberal Democrats that critically affected his efficiency when giving speeches and at different political occasions, he in a memoir printed on Sunday. The previous enterprise secretary [in the Coalition government] determined to maintain his well being points secret for greater than a 12 months and to soldier on as chief, till he stepped down in July 2019. Now 79, he says within the memoir that he wrestled with whether or not to go public on the time, however got here to the conclusion that individuals would have written him off as a “goner” had he finished so. On one event in early summer season 2018 he was addressing MPs in a Brexit debate within the Home of Commons. “I completely misplaced my bearings and for what appeared an eternity I used to be paralysed,” he writes. The revelation in regards to the stroke, which occurred when flying to Italy in Could 2018, comes in the direction of the top of Partnership & Politics In a Divided Decade.” – Observer
