World News - LONDON - With the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth on Thursday, Prince Charles has become king of the United Kingdom and 14 other realms, ending a wait of more than 70 years - the longest by an heir in British history. The role will be daunting. His late mother was. Read more at www.tnp.sg
The Queen s sense of duty never for a moment wavered - but that doesn t mean our late monarch, who died on Thursday at the age of 96, didn t have immaculate comic timing.
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While the wife of a king is traditionally crowned queen, the question of what title Camilla would hold when Charles became king had been a tricky one for many years.