and bells will be tolling any moment now and at some places already all across england. i want to bring in now cnn s max foster who is our royal correspondent, senior royal correspondent. max, thank you for joining us. listen, what can we expect today as far as what s going to happen ceremonially and also prince charles is expected to speak as well. bells tolling at westminster ab abbey, st. paul s and westminster. we will be hearing gun salutes as well. you can hear the bells tolling, westminster abbey is very close to us here. let s listen in for a moment. so they take different patterns depending on the event and this will be an extended version basically because it s such a significant event. the bells tolling at st. paul s, there will also be a service later on, the first moment for national figures to reflect on this moment. i think to hear that prince charles has left balmoral, i would expect to see him come here, actually, don. it s not confirmed, but there s flow
just a week, a new prime minister and a new monarch, that s a big change. it is a big change. listen, as we watch king charles now and queen consort camilla leave aberdeen airport i always like to show the newspapers. i wanted to get more of them, but this is we re speaking of a life of service, right? this is the times. and that s the queen, the young queen on the cover, a beautiful picture. on her coronation day. a life in service, queen elizabeth ii, april 21, 1926 to september 8, 25022. and then this one is the sun which i think is a beautiful picture of her now as she was when she passed. we loved you, ma am, and then it says britain s longest serving monarch, queen elizabeth ii died peacefully at her beloved bell moral home age 96 yesterday after 70 years of devoted service. there is a 36-page tribute inside.
throne then william will become king and camilla will not sort of replace him. they are not equal in status but she is the consort. so they will fly here, the flight is not long. i think they will be heading straight back to london becbec because that s his private secretary following him. they have had their private family time and as harsh as it seems now is the moment to address his other commitment which is to the nation. the most obvious thing for him to do would be, first of all, perhaps calling on the prime minister, have an audience with the prime minister and then come out and greet the crowds frankly here at buckingham palace. in terms of security, it s a tough setup, but they would have prepared for t he needs to have some moment with the public, i think. i just want to alert our viewers, this is live pictures, this is king charles now the third and queen consort camilla and they are leaving and this is just moments ago leaving
okay. so you are looking at live pictures now, this is aberdeen airport in scotland and you re seeing king charles now departing. max foster back with me now. this is a moment that you and i had been speaking about this morning. he is on his way back to london, correct? this is the first time we ve seen king charles iii, don, on television in the public. so this is a very significant moment. every image now will be historic and part of the national archive effectively. he is there thanking, i m sure, people at the airport and people involved in his visit there to scotland. his whole world, his whole position really in the national pecking order has gone up a level. he s surrounded by a very different sort of security setup is that the queen consort. that s queen camilla, the queen consort. just to clarify, charles is the monarch as his mother was the monarch. when he eventually leaves the