Friday 9 September 2022 10:37 PM Charles will be proclaimed King LIVE on television in a historic first trends now
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The nation will watch the new King being formally proclaimed monarch as the ceremony is televised for the first time.
Today will be the first time in history that the Accession Council in the State Apartments of St James’s Palace will be broadcast. It is due to start at 10am.
A Principal Proclamation will then be read in public from the balcony overlooking Friary Court at St James’s an hour later. It is read by the Garter King of Arms.
King Charles III, holding back tears, said, 'To my darling Mama, thank you, thank you', as he hailed Elizabeth II as an 'inspiration and an example to me and to all my family' following her death aged 96 at Balmoral Castle yesterday
It will be followed by proclamations around the country, with the second one in the City of London at the Royal Exchange at midday, and further proclamations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales at midday tomorrow.
Buckingham Palace issued details of the arrangements. It was confirmed cameras would be allowed inside the State Apartments to capture the proceedings for the first time.
In recognition of the new King, union flags will be flown at full-mast from the time of the Principal Proclamation until one hour after the proclamations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. They will then return to half-mast to mourn the death of the Queen.
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