Prime minister to meet new monarch as floral tributes are placed outside Buckingham Palace and elsewhere
The first full day of the reign of King Charles III has begun, with the new monarch travelling to London to meet the prime minister and prepare for a national address on Friday evening.
After staying at Balmoral overnight, the King will travel with Camilla, now Queen Consort, to the capital.
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Continue reading...The prime minister Anthony Albanese is addressing the nation about the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
He said it is a loss that is “felt deeply in Australia”. The Queen was a rare and reassuring constant in a period of massive change, he said, and was the only monarch to visit Australia, which she did 16 separate times.
There is comfort to be found in Her Majesty’s own words. “Grief is the price we pay for love.”
This is a loss we feel deeply in Australia. Queen Elizabeth II is the only reigning monarch most of us have known, and the only one to ever visit Australia. Over the course of a remarkable seven decades, Her Majesty was a rare and reassuring constant amidst rapid change. Through the noise and turbulence of the years, she embodies and exhibited a timeless decency and enduring calm. Her
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The Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said the Queen’s death was a “terrible loss for us all”, adding: “We will miss her beyond measure.”
He said: “For all of us, the Queen has been a constant presence in our lives – as familiar as a member of the family, yet one who has exercised a calm and steadying influence over our country. Most of us have never known a time when she was not there.
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