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Tag: Charles III, King of the United Kingdom
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Read King Charles III’s declaration to the Accession Council.
In the address, the king mourned the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and said, “I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me.”