King Charles Is Proclaimed Monarch in Arcane, Very White-Looking Ceremony

King Charles, with Queen Consort Camilla and son and heir Prince William by his side, was proclaimed monarch at St James’ Palace in London Saturday morning by a gathering of the “lords spiritual and temporal” who make up the so-called Accession Council.

In the declaration he read out, Charles said: “I am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me. In taking up these responsibilities, I shall strive to follow the inspiring example I have been set in upholding constitutional government and to seek the peace, harmony and prosperity of the peoples of these Islands and of the Commonwealth realms and territories throughout the world.”