Newsman: King Charles has vowed to continue the Queen’s “dedicated service” to her people.
“The great bell of Big Ben, one of the most powerful symbols of our nation throughout the world, and housed within the Elizabeth Tower also named for my Mother’s jubilee, will mark the passage of the late Queen’s progress from Buckingham Palace to this Parliament on Wednesday,” King Charles said in Westminster Hall.
The Queen will lie in state for four days in the hall from Wednesday until her funeral next Monday.
In his first address to Parliament the King said,
“We gather today in remembrance of the remarkable span of the Queen’s dedicated service to her nations and people.”.
“While very young her late Majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people.
“This vow she kept with unsurpassed devotion. She set an example of selfless duty which, with God’s help and your councils, I am resolved faithfully to follow,” Charles said.
Prince Harry has today paid tribute to his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II.
“Thank you for your commitment to service. Thank you for your sound advice. Thank you for your infectious smile,” Harry wrote in a statement on Monday.
“In celebrating the life of my grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen — and in mourning her loss — we are all reminded of the guiding compass she was to so many in her commitment to service and duty,” he added.
“Her unwavering grace and dignity remained true throughout her life and now her everlasting legacy,” he continued.
Harry recalled the words the Queen spoke after the passing of her husband, Prince Philip: “Life, of course, consists of final partings as well as first meetings.”
“Granny, while this final parting brings us great sadness, I am forever grateful for all of our first meetings — from my earliest childhood memories with you, to meeting you for the first time as my Commander-in-Chief, to the first moment you met my darling wife and hugged your beloved great-grandchildren,” he wrote.
“We, too, smile knowing that you and grandpa are reunited now, and both together in peace,” the prince added.
Harry said he “now honours [his] father in his new role as King Charles III.”
