and the world remember the queen. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room as cnn s special live coverage continues. we begin with charles iii s debut as king. the new monarch facing a moment he acknowledges he s been dreading, the death of his mother, queen elizabeth. cnn s bianca nobilo is outside st. paul s cathedral where a service for the queen was held today. bianca, this has been a very, very emotional day for the british people and their new king. it has, wolf. i ve been speaking to those who attended this service. 2,000 members of the public, first come, first serve were given wristbands this morning, and they were coming from all over the world. these were people from australia, cuba, italy that i spoke to. they were going past the tourism office where they were giving out tickets to this remembrance service and service of thanksgiving. and they just happened to be in the right place and the rig
multiple crimes, including conspiracy and money laundering. he is in a lot of trouble. we will get to all of that in just a few minutes. but we must begin this evening s broadcast in the united kingdom where it is already four in the morning on friday. and that nation is just beginning its full full day without a screen. elizabeth the second died at her castle in scotland earlier today. she was 96 years old. people kept out near buckingham palace in london, all night long, paying tribute to the only monarch they have known for more than 70 years. she range longer than any other british monarch in history. the late queen s eldest son inherits the throne. he is now king charles the third. tomorrow, he is expected to return to london from scotland to speak to the nation. nbc s keir simmons has more on queens elizabeth and her extraordinary life. the palace first announced this morning doctors were concerned about her health. then, around 6:30 local time, posting a statement on
prime minister is tweeting about it. so address the issue rather than trying to keep it private. also been announced that prince of wales, the queen s heir, is traveling immediately to balmoral in scotland and he is dropping all his plans. we are also, of course, trying to i just checked in with kensington palace to see what prince william s movements are because obviously he s been informed. we re told all the family, key family have been informed. but prince william will also i m sure be expected to visit as well. max, remind us of the queen s activities over the last week, where she was seen and not seen and what concerns have arisen over the last few days about her health. well, she always goes to scotland to balmoral in the summer. and she always comes to buckingham palace to appoint a new prime minister. and the concern recently was that she announced she would not be returning from balmoral to appoint the prime minister, so the outgoing and incoming prime ministe
it was done at balmoral not where it is traditionally done at buckingham palace. normally the queen would have come to buckingham palace to meet with an incoming prime minister. yeah, anderson. i think we should give her a break. she is 96 years old. why would she get on a plane even if she was healthy to come to london. fair point. reporter: when actually the younger people could go up and see her. seriously. 96 years old. she has the right for them to come to see her in balmoral. and i would just say that as we were saying that she has been the thread of everyone s life in this country and the commonwealth and really in the fans of the british monarchy all over the world for the last 70 years. we are right now in a state of some political upheaval. we ve just had a new prime minister, her 15th, and i would also just say that, look. she is also a mother. she is a grandmother, she is a great grandmother, a family woman. and now it s time for them to be having their mome
max, anybody under the able of 72 or so, has never known a world without queen elizabeth. what happens now? what do the next few weeks look like? i think the images you ve been speaking to and the ones we re looking at now really express the now. people are shocked, saddened, they sort of saw this coming but didn t know how it was going to feel. you have thousands of people coming down here to buckingham palace to mill about, to talk to each other, it s quite celebratory at times. i think that s quite heartening in a way, because i know that the queen wanted people to celebrate her life and not necessarily mourn her life. but people just, you know, pouring down with rain and people are flooding here. i think that s going to be the story of the next few days. as the palace, the government, and various public bodies tried to organize a series of events that could last up to two weeks after the funeral to somehow try to not just express the queen s legacy, but also to look ahe