Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, her eldest child, Charles, Prince of Wales, automatically became king, now King Charles 111.
Elizabeth was the longest-serving monarch in British history and an icon instantly recognisable to billions of people around the world. She died at the age of 96.
Charles who is the eldest Elizabeth’s four children because king yesterday at the age of 73. He was as well, the oldest heir apparent in British history.
The queen’s death came after the palace announced on Thursday that doctors were “concerned” for her health and recommended she stayed under medical supervision.
All her children — Charles, Princess Anne, 72, Prince Andrew, 62, and Prince Edward, 58, flocked to her Scottish Highland retreat, Balmoral.
They were joined by Charles’s sons, Prince William, and his estranged brother Prince Harry.
Two days earlier the queen appointed Liz Truss as the 15th prime minister of her reign and was seen smiling in photographs but looking frail and using a walking stick.