from public engagements during his treatment. during the king s recent hospital procedure for benign prostate if you haven t seen the statement, let me read it to you. a spokesperson said they won t reveal what type of cancer, but they know it s not prostate cancer. last week, the king was discharged from hospital following surgery for an enlarged prostate 7 a condition the palace had described as benign. king charles was last pictured yesterday at the sunday service at the church of st mary magdalene on the sandringham estate in norfolk. it was his first public outing since his three night hospital stay a week ago. you can see is in reasonably good spirits. in the company of queen camilla. that was his first outing since that hospital stay. perhaps should have told us something was amiss. there been responses from politicians through the day. the prime minister saying. the opposition leader. this from the first minister in northern ireland. the leader with me is guto harri,
life. her successor and son king charles iii is in london, and making his way right now to buckingham palace for the first time as king. upon his arrival, he ll be greeted by thousands lining up to pay their respects, laying flowers and cards outside the palace honoring the queen s seven decades on the throne. elizabeth became queen february 6th, 1952, she was just 25 years old. her reign spanned 14 u.s. presidents, seven popes, and 15 british prime ministers. she was a witness to history and an indelible part of it during her time on the throne, she led her country through wars in korea, the falklands and afghanistan. her reign spanning global events as is well, from the first moon landing to 9/11 and the coronavirus pandemic. the queen was a global fixture, a beacon of stability, for some seven decades. overnight, many parts of the world came together to remember queen elizabeth from new york to paris, australia, to brazil, buildings lit up, flags flying at half-staff. an
there is the rolls-royce carrying him to the palace. give us a sense today, roughly a a day after the news, how are the uk people feeling? i think this is a very stark image. this is king charles in what was the late queen s limousine, state limousine, and that royal claret color and you see above it, the royal standard flying, which is the monarch s flag. so we have been talking a lot, haven t we, about how the flags ash around the united kingdom, have been flying at half-staff, all but one, the royal standard, because the monarch never dies. we have seen the rolls cleared coming from the airport. the details of this we can t reveal in exact detail until they happened for security reasons, but it does feel as though they re heading towards buckingham palace. so two orders of business i would say would be at the front of the new king s mind. that would be meeting the public, as king, having some
default, a monarchist country. it served the country very well for a very long time. the monarchy survived just a civil war, 400 years ago indeed. and again this tremendously sustaining influence, such as the queen herself, who is i think in the palace tonight as we see the royal standard flying. i understand on a personal note your daughter went to school with kate middleton. indeed. she s in australia at the moment today. she said to me the other day, skyping, what else, what do we do these days? i m in a youth hostile, my hockey teammate is about to become the next or if not the next, the next after queen of england. she was wry about this and agreed she wouldn t want to be in that position herself. were they classmates and teammates? they were. she said to me today, we were talking about this, if there was anybody at that school, the school s called mulberr, she