different kind of friday. bill hemmer. good morning to you at home. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the breaking news yesterday and now the sadness is in motion here. the queen s death marking the end of an historic era. she began in 1952 when harry truman was president. things stand at the moment the prince is scheduled to give his first address later today as monarch. prince harry seen leaving balmoral in scotland earlier today. we believe other royals are still at the castle. dana: a service is held later today at st. paul s cathedral in london. bill: our coverage continues with team fox coverage. duncan, a former royal editor of the the sun and author of the inside story. lucas tomlinson has reaction from president biden. dana: we ll go to chief correspondent jonathan hunt live outside buckingham palace in london. wonderful to have you on our show today. you were in los angeles but have returned to your home country of london for this r
as he mourns his mother and carries out his duties as the new head of state. there he is. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: nice to see you on this kind of special friday morning. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. king charles has spent most of his life getting ready for the moment we saw an hour ago. to shake hands with the people affectionately known as his subjects, shall we say. we can debate whether or not they accept that. his majesty returning to london from scotland last hour. welcomed by the massive crowd. what a scene it was to see the aerial pictures, the mourners outside buckingham palace. that country grieving the only monarch most people in britain had ever known. dana: she was the longest reigning monarch ever and a symbol of loyalty and duty. across decades of enormous social change. bill: charles iii now
what we re seeing outside buckingham palace might not ever happened had it been for the queen. doesn t it feel like prince charles wants to come out of the shadow and he has been waiting since he was 4 years old for this job. and the last person that would wish her death being as abrupt as it ultimately was he is ready and stepping out at buckingham palace is for me a symbol i m out of the shadows, this is my time and we are going to do this together. very important that first images of him not shaking prime minister s hands but members of the public. bill: listen, here in the u.s. we expect our he is not a politician but we expect our people of the public to interact with us this way. but it has not been that way for the crown going back hundreds of years.
she was giving away some of her royal duties as her health deteriorated. now that he is king the core nation will not take place for a while but the assertion council meets after a monarch dies as soon as possible at james palace. the royal family, counselors, as well as the prime minister. the new king will soon meet with the prime minister today before he addresses the country about the loss of the queen and the loss of his mother. crowds have been gathering here outside of buckingham palace to honor the queen the 70 years she reigned, a symbol of british tradition, who is now simply gone. never known anything different. she has been our queen all this all my life. so it will be a huge terribly sad. but pleased that she went quietly in her sleep. just to pay my respects pretty much because it is quite a sad day, isn t it? she has been like a constant