BBCNEWS BBC July 3, 2024
our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, looks back at king charles�* first year on the throne. the end came amid the tranquillity of balmoral, exactly as the late queen had wanted. at 3:10, at the moment of her death, the crown passed and the reign of charles iii began. no british monarch had waited longer to succeed to the throne and few monarchs can have been as aware as he was of the scale of the challenge... to succeed such a revered sovereign and maintain the monarchy�*s position. on this, the first anniversary of the late queen's death, the king paid tribute to her. we ...