The UK’s King Charles III has been formally proclaimed sovereign on Saturday morning in the first televised accession council.
The 73-year-old new monarch automatically become King when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died on Thursday afternoon, but it is tradition for the Accession Council to convene, usually within 24 hours of a monarch’s death, to formally proclaim his or her successor.
The Accession Council, mainly made up of more than 200 members of the Privy Council, a group of advisors including past and present senior politicians, judges, bishops, and some senior royal family members, were present at St. Jame’s Palace to hear the accession proclamation….