these are counsellors to the monarch before that 1st proclamation from the balcony, through the crowds who will be gathered outside saint james's palace. officially declaring charles to be king charles the 3rd. and when that, sir, the 1st prop public proclamation takes place from the balcony at saint james's palace. jonah, we understand that there will be some centuries old pageantry to go with it either . m. a found fab played gun salutes or being fired, both at hyde park in london again, not far from for where you are and the tower of london across to the east of london. ah, journal for the moment m. many thanks to dinner, i'll touch you again in just a 2nd, but the ceremony is getting underway. spot on time. now at saint james's palace. let's listen in this. there's not a lot for you to hear of them are going to just take in the atmosphere and,

and let's wait for this to begin the business for part one of the council. my lords, it is my side duty to inform you that her most gracious majesty, queen elizabeth the 2nd has passed away on thursday. the 8th of september 2022 at bell moral castle. i propose that when certain necessary business has been transacted, a deputation, consisting of her majesty his royal highness, the archbishop of canterbury, the lord chancellor, the archbishop of york,

the prime minister, the clock at the council, and myself, shall wait on the king and in form hin the council is assembled. i now call on the clock at the council to read aloud the text of the proclamation. whereas it has pleased almighty gods to call to his mercy, our late sovereign lady, queen elizabeth the 2nd of bless it and glorious memory. by whose decease, the crown of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland is solely and rightfully come to the prince charles philip off the george. we, therefore, the lord spiritual and temporal of this realm. and members of the house of commons

together with other members of her late majesty's privy council and representatives of the realm and territories. aldermen and citizens of london and others. do now hereby with one voice and consent of tongue and heart. publish and proclaim that the prince charles fillet off the george is now by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory become our only lawful and rightful liege lord. charles, the 3rd, by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and his other realms and territories. king, head of the commonwealth defender of the faith, to whom do acknowledge all faith and obedience, with humble affection, beseeching god, by whom kings and queens do reign. took bless his majesty with long and happy years

to reign over us. god save the king. oh, okay. i now invite those on the platform to sign the proclamation.

well, let me just tell you for a moment what it was we saw there. ah penny mortons, who is the lord? president of the privy council. was the 1st speaker you heard the announcing the death, the sovereign and the clerk of the council. read aloud the text of the assertion proclamation, including charles has chosen a title as king, which of course is sir charles the 3rd and then the siding getting underway. you saw the queen consort there, the prince of wales, the archbishop of canterbury, a lord chancellor, the archbishop of york,

and the current prime minister at least trust. they're all signing this declaration . there after this, the lord president will again call for silence and will remain read the remaining items of business, dealing with public proclamations and the orders of the gun salutes that we will hear a little later from hyde park and the town of london. of course we haven't seen the king himself yet. he will be there a little later. early privy counselors at there at the moment around $700.00 privy council. of course, they can't all be there for the ceremony in that small room, only $200.00 of them have been summoned for this ancient ceremony. here, most of the privy counsellors are a current or former british politicians. again, with this, the signing part of the ceremony are coming towards its its conclusion. now let's listen once again to the rest of this

drafts of 8 orders of council. one, ordering the proclamation to be printed and published in specialists supplements in the london, edinburgh and belfast possess 2 directing the lord chancellor to affix the great seal to the proclamation proclaiming his majesty king charles

the 3rd. 3. directing the king's heralds and pursued vince of arms to attend at the court of saint james to proclaim his majesty king charles the 3rd full, directing the lord mare, the court of aldermen and commons of london to attend at the royal exchange to proclaim his majesty king charles, the 3rd 5, directing his majesty's secretary of state for defense, to give directions for the firing of guns at hyde park. as soon as his majesty is proclaimed, 6, directing the constable of his majesty's tower of london to give directions for the firing of guns. at the tower of london. as soon as his majesty is proclaimed,

7, directing his majesty's secretary of state for scotland to cause the proclamation for proclaiming his majesty king charles the 3rd to be published in scotland. aids directing the clock of the council to issue circular letters for causing his majesty king charles the 3rd to be proclaims are hereby approved. and that concludes the business. for this part of the council. i now invite the deputation party to accompany me to wait on the king in the council chamber.

well that is the 1st part of this accession ceremony over as sir penny morton ter said the we know a weight of the king for the 2nd part of the council where the king will make her a personal declaration and turned the death of the queen. let's begin once again, christopher wilson, roy biographer, he was watching that with us, sir, from our london studio. christopher, what do you make of what you saw the as a royal historian, i was incredibly moved by what i saw. this is something that has never been witnessed in public ever before, and 1200 years of monarchy in this country. it's a very secret moment when the new sovereign is endorsed is rather stamped, if you'd like, by those who are the most powerful in the land. and it's very interesting to see

the pecking order in which the signatures were put on that proclamation. william comes 1st because he is the future king himself and commit are only although she is not a queen only comes 2nd then upon penny more than because she is running the whole show here. and then you got the prime minister followed by the archbishop of canterbury. followed by the duke of norfolk and it's interesting, this is if you like britain's pecking order, the secret pecking order in britain. this last important pass. and of course, we're waiting for the most important person to come on and in just a moment. but this is historic, it's never been seen before. and short of his coronation is actually a very, very moving piece of history. many famous faces that we can see the privy

counsellors who will all sign the proclamation as they leave at the end of the ceremony. the former prime ministers, as, as you will pointing out the very famous british politicians who are the privy counsellors. what is the privy council? the privy council, a was created long ago to a protect the rights of democracy. to make sure that the king doesn't run away with all the money or declare war without telling anybody else what he's going to do. and, and they are there as lay members, if you like, of all for the british establishment or to endorse everything that goes on. and the, the privy council will meet with the sovereign from time to time when they're what's called orders in council, where the new, the government's made new laws. and what they have to do is they have to go and

show it to king charles. and he has to sign it off, but in fact the, the power remains with the privy council in politics. this is, this is merely as it were a courtesy of a king, but these are important people. however, the numbers of swells ridiculously, i think, largely in part because people live longer than they used to. when the queen came to threaten her in the 217 privy council as neither any that. now more than $700.00 the current of is that they oversee. ready but cut all attend this ceremony. how do they decide who's there and who isn't then? well, i think you can knock out the oldest of them with to start with. and then i think that there may have been a prior to. and they said they must have been some kind of ballot or arrangement because all privy counselors are equal. and so there must have been at some stage

beforehand, a lottery or some piece of government legislation which we don't know about. but presumably we'll find interesting. see, look that now allowing people to come into the court yard of saint james's palace. and the proclamation will be made from that balcony from the open window that you can see in due course. but it's again very moving to see that ordinary people have been allowed to come this close to this amazing piece of history. that's just one final question on the privy council, chris chris road are you are a pretty counsellor for life once. once you are appointed, i saw that nick klegg, who was the deputy prime minister, a liberal leader of the little liberal democrats. but it's now a course of an executive at mentor, the company behind facebook and instagram. he's no longer in a british politics and a while he's due to move back to, to london with his family,

but for several years has been living in california. well, he would have no parts of privy council business that the lord president of the council penny morgan would decide when the the privy council meets who should be there and they are, although they're all more, they're all equal. some are more equal than others in the sense that the actor politicians and those with influence of what's going on and government would take precedence over somebody like neglect. okay, so what, what happens next slide, it would be amazing. you can see the vs. you can see the pictures talk us through this crystal well, this is now where he is not king yet in actual what he is king in actual terms, but not in historic terms until he steps out before these people who are his judges, if you like. these, these politicians, but other people,

other important people, clerics as senior clerics in the church of england and elsewhere. i have come to witness this moment when he actually formerly becomes king charles himself. the king is, is, is not yet at some james's palace. we understand where we're, we're waiting for his medicaid to arrive any moment now he's got to make a relatively short journey from buckingham palace around to james's palace. a again of what? while we wait, christopher, and i know you're, you're watching the pictures as, as you're talking here. but again, i'm talking through the significance to the united kingdom of saint james's palace itself. i mean that when he, when thinks of, of anyone who's not from the united kingdom behalf. so, you know, people watching around the world and they think of the british monarchy they think of places like buckingham palace,

a windsor castle. many of them may be totally unfamiliar with, with this building here. saint james's palace. well, it before, sir james, this palace became as it were, the center of royal power, which was before buckingham palace of it was whitehall palace, which was destroyed on a far as long, long ago and james's palace, which is at that stage really just a residence. suddenly became a really important central power, and it was only later when they felt, but it wasn't sufficient for the administration of a raw affairs that back in paris took over bucking palace is all though that's where the throne room is. that's where people go to the garden party and all that sort of thing. and james had a still really looked on ex, especially by the royal family as being you know,

the seat of power so. so you know that when there are private funerals, for example, all members, the role family, not state funerals, it's to son, james is powerless. they go to the chapel where so what, what you're seeing is this is, this is where rewinding history. i found it in my format on the balcony outside of saint james's palace, where, where the with the proclamation will, will be read to, to the members of the public who, who get who been allowed to gather. but he's on my right in thinking that that is also the balcony, where the, the late queens uncle are fully abdicated. yes, this, this is a happy, a bourbon by far. and it's, it's, it's going to be very interesting. see what unravels next. i'm sorry. i wasn't

a run for the eyes are yes, of course. i only mentioned that christopher this because i have seen all kind of foot as many people will have seen archive footage of that moment and may actually put 2 of them together and recognize that, that balcony where we're talking about the history of saint james's palace. yes indeed, where we can see a very different state of affairs, a happy outcome at the end of these proceedings, rather than the unhappy outcome of it with the 8th in december 1936. and it is, it's a, a remarkable moment because well, we're seeing this as people have never seen it before. this is all new stuff. and even people who are around when the queen was proclaimed in 1952, would not have been able to see any of what we're seeing now. so it's extraordinary how royalty has layers and layers which can reveal themselves in

history. and i find this tremendous exciting. this is my, there is a single throw. only charles as king will stand there. camilla is queen. of course, in future times there will be a throne for her by his side and for him. so for example, the state opening apartment, but just here, this is all focus on one man, one man only the new kid on the block. while we wait for the new king to arrive at he is, he is keeping his privilege. privy, counsellor, sir, waiting there. when he arrives for the 2nd part of the ceremony, he used to that yes. what, what are we, what are we expecting to happen? he, he will take an oath to preserve the church of scotland. explain that to us. well,

i think the part of the job monarchy is to approve it is to as it will support the pillars of the establishment than pillars of the establishment. our parliament and the church and the established church we're talking about. so that's the church of england and the church of scotland and other churches didn't quite get into his protection in the same way, although a unit is going to be very interesting to see on his carnation. whether he does what he said he wants to do. which was to change his title from defender of the faith, which is what all previous monex have done to defend to all face. he wants to embrace all the other religions in the country and say, i embrace you, i protect you as i protect the establish judges. but yesterday, very interestingly, when he made his speech and he referred to the church of england, the,

the gates of buckingham palace. um, i could just show you a um i've just opened, signifying perhaps that the new king is motorcade will be a, is about to leave buckingham palace to make a short journey. i mean, it literally is a few 100 meters from buckingham palace down the mall. i left a day, you are iraq, saint james's palace. christopher will come back to you in just a moment while we're waiting for that. or we can show you on a map where ra, where buckingham palace is in relation to saint james's palace, lego buckingham palace. the medicaid will leave a will drive along the mile, just a few 100 meters left turn. and there is saint james's palace while we wait for that. her medicaid's lever we have um, we have gods coming through the gates or at least at the moment,

standing to attention will leave you watching that. but on the other side of the screen, you can what's a little background here, a report from, ah, i think it's sonya gay ago, we've got here talking about the new king and his interests, which may have an impact upon his reign. let. let's watch this. he has been waiting for the longest time. there has never been any doubt of prince charles's desire to become king, but the sheer span of his mother's reign has left him becoming king charles at relatively advanced years himself. and charles may cause a war, controversial figure as head of state. the queen elizabeth the 2nd did married 1st to diana spencer. he began having an affair with camilla parker bowles before diana's tragic death. that in itself was a public relations problem. uh huh. let's go back to let saint james's palace were

obviously that the new king has arrived listening. it is my most sorrow who duty to announce to you the death of my beloved mother, the queen. i know how deeply you, in turn nation and i think i may say the whole world sympathized with me. in the irreparable loss, we've all suffered. it is the gracious consolation to me to know of the sympathy expressed by so many to my sister and brothers. and that such overwhelming affection and support should be extended to our whole family in our loss. to all of us as a family, as to this kingdom and the wider family of nations, of which it is a part. my mother gave an example of lifelong love. and of selfless

service. my mother's reign was unequalled in its duration. it's dedication and devotion, even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful life. i am deeply aware of this great inheritance and of the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty which have now passed to me. in taking up these responsibilities, i shall strive to follow the inspiring example. i have been set in up holding constitutional government and to seek the peace, harmony, and prosperity of the peoples of these islands and of the common rose realms and territories throughout the world. in this purpose,

i know that i should be upheld by the affection and loyalty of the peoples whose sovereign i have been called upon to be. and that in the discharge of these duties, i will be guided by the counsel of their elected poems. in all this, i am profoundly encouraged by the constant support of my beloved wife. i take this opportunity to confirm my willingness and intention to continue the tradition of surrendering the hereditary revenues. encoding the crown of state to my government for the benefit of all in return for the sovereign grant, which supports my official duties as head of state and head of nation.

and in carrying out the heavy task that has been laid upon. and to which i now dedicate what remains to me of my life. i pray for the guidance and hope all mighty god i have with humble duty to crave your majesty's permission, but the publication of your gracious speech approves concerning the security of the church of scotland. i understand that the law requires that i should add to my accession to the crown take and subscribe the oath relating to the security of the church of scotland. i am ready to do so at this 1st opportunity.

i charles the 3rd by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. and are my other realms and territories. king, defender of the faith do faithfully promise and swear that i shall in viola, blue, maintain and preserve the settlement of the true protestant religion. as established by the laws made in scotland in prosecution of the claim of rights. and particularly by an act entitled, an act for securing the protestant religion and presbyterian church government and by the acts passed in the parliament of both kingdoms for union of the 2 kingdoms. together with the government worship discipline rights and privileges of the church of scotland. so help me god,

i now invite your majesty to subscribe those copies of the instrument confirming the oath has been taken

i now invite the witnesses to his majesty's oath to sign both copies of the instrument o.