Cannon salutes, which resounded in the late morning from London, in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, sealed today the ritual of the anniversary of the accession to the throne of 75-year-old Charles III, who became king on September 8, 2022, upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
The festive homage to the monarch was made the following day, on Monday, as tradition dictates when the anniversary falls on a Sunday.
Charles, in any case, is in Scotland these weeks for the usual summer family holidays of the British royals (holidays that Elizabeth used to spend in her beloved residence of Balmoral, where she also passed away).
In Scotland, Charles commemorated yesterday in private, as usual, the anniversary of his mother’s death, except for a public outing to attend a memorial mass with Queen Camilla in a local church.
For Charles III, the last year has been marked by positive data on the stability of the overall popular consensus among the British towards the monarchy, according to the latest polls.
But also by difficult challenges: from his cancer diagnosis, made public in January with an unprecedented act (a disease from which he appears to be recovering in terms of returning to official activity), to the one that then affected the 42-year-old Princess Kate, wife of his firstborn and heir to the throne William.
Sunday is Harry’s 40th birthday
Meanwhile, next Sunday will also mark the 40th birthday of Harry, second-born of Charles and the late Lady Diana, which the rebel prince should spend on his own, in self-exile in America, with his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and the little princes Archie and Lilibet.
But it will still be worth him – as various British and international media have been underlining for months – the release of a further, substantial share of the inheritance expected upon reaching this age by his great-grandmother.
Another 5 million pounds, according to the division of the personal assets of the popular Queen Mother of Elizabeth – who died over a hundred years old in 2002 – that she wanted to leave in unequal parts to her great-grandchildren: favoring the younger one over William, who would have been entitled to other income as heir to the throne.
This article is originally published on bluewin.ch
