Saturday 10 September 2022 09:34 AM Nation awaits as Charles will be officially proclaimed King TODAY live on TV trends now
Prime Minister Liz Truss has left Number 10 Downing Street for St James's Palace to attend the formal proclamation of King Charles III this morning - two days after the death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral aged 96.
Charles III will be officially proclaimed by the Accession Council at the palace at 10am, in a ceremony that will be televised for the first time.
The Accession Council - a body of advisers that dates back to the time of the Norman kings made up of 250 dignitaries including Labour former Cabinet minister Harriet Harman, the Mother of the House, and the high commissioners of the 14 Commonwealth countries where the monarch is Head of State - will initially meet without the King.
Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt, appointed Lord President of the Privy Council by Ms Truss, will announce the death of the Queen. The clerk of the Council then reads aloud the text of the Accession Proclamation, including Charles' chosen title as king - Charles III.
The proclamation is signed by a group including Camilla, the Queen Consort, the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York and the Prime Minister.
The Lord President then calls for silence and reads the remaining items of business, dealing with the public proclamations and orders for the gun salutes at Hyde Park and the Tower of London.
Charles III is expected to then enter for the second part of the council at 10.20am, attended only by privy counsellors and makes a personal declaration about the death of the Queen. He will take an oath to preserve the Church of Scotland and signs two documents to record it, with his wife Camilla and his son Prince William among those witnessing his signature. Privy counsellors will then sign the proclamation as they leave.
At 11am, the Principal Proclamation then follows. It will be read from the balcony overlooking Friary Court at St James's. The proclamation will be read by the Garter King of Arms, accompanied by the Earl Marshal, other Officers of Arms and the Serjeants at Arms. This will be the
