This Thursday, September 8, it was confirmed the death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96who was the oldest monarch in the world.
The eldest son of the monarch, Prince Charles will be the new King of England, as revealed by the British Crown and Prime Minister Liz Truss.
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Charles, now a former Prince of Wales, will take the throne at the age of 73. The heir to Queen Elizabeth II will welcome the name of Carlos III for his reign.
“Today the Crown passes, as it has done for over a thousand years, to our new monarch, our new head of state, His Majesty King Carlos III“, said the prime minister, Liz Truss, in a statement to the country outside the official residence of Downing Street.
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Likewise, His wife Camilla Parker will become queen consort.which is the term used to say that she is the wife of the monarch, unlike the title of queen that Elizabeth II had.
According to the protocol, Carlos will be named the new king of England in the first 24 hours after the death of the queen.
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“This happens at St James’s Palace in London, in front of a ceremonial body known as the Accession Council.“, detailed the BBC.
Farewell to a queen of seven decades
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth countries, died this Thursday at the age of 96 after seven decades of reign in which she weathered numerous crises of a monarchy that is now opening a new chapter.
“The queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and Queen consort will remain at Balmoral tonight. and will return to London tomorrow,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
The deterioration of Elizabeth II’s health has accelerated in recent days. On Tuesday he had received the resigning prime minister, Boris Johnson, and his successor, Liz Truss, at his Scottish castle in Balmoral, giving up for the first time in his long term to hold this formal act in London, to avoid a trip of 800 km.
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Two days later, the royal house announced that its doctors they were “concerned for her majesty’s health and recommended that she remain under medical surveillance” in Balmoral, where his children and grandchildren immediately traveled.
This included Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, who were in London for a charity event, despite living in California since they left the British monarchy in 2020, dealing a severe blow to the institution.
The trip to Scotland for the couple, who are not on the best of terms with the royal family, compounded concerns raised by an already unusual statement from Buckingham.
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The health of the queen, who Despite his advanced age, he maintained until then a very tight schedulebegan to worry the country when last October 20, after canceling an official trip to Northern Ireland and “reluctantly accepting medical advice to rest”, he spent a night hospitalized to undergo medical tests whose nature was never specified. .
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*With information from AFP and EFE