: pages from germany the front of pages from germany and france, to hong kong and austria. interesting showing the changing of the guard at the changing of the guard at the top of the royalty, but that prominent photo as well of the king and queen consort. here in the uk, if i show you the back page of this wraparound for the times, a very well framed photo of the king and queen consort entering buckingham palace at the top there, and the first major quote from king charles iii, his pledge in full which i will read to you, it is worth reflecting on. "wherever you may live in the united kingdom or in the realms and territory across the world and whatever may be your background and beliefs, i shall endeavour to serve you with loyalty, respect and love". serve you with loyalty, respect and love'-_ and love". and i think that sums up — and love". and i think that sums up much _ and love". and i think that sums up much of- and love". and i think that sums up much of the - and love". and i think that. sums up much of the pledge and love". and i think that- sums up much of the pledge made in that historic address, the first address by king charles iii, watched by millions both

in the uk and around the world. and the express newspaper picks up and the express newspaper picks up on the final line of that emotional eulogy, ending with the words from shakespeare's hamlet that king charles chose: "may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest". words for his mother but lyrics that featured in princess diana's funeral. it was also voiced in an address that he gave that created a new princess of wales, catherine. according to some royal sources, catherine appreciates the history with this role but does want to create her own path. it this role but does want to create her own path.- create her own path. it is beautiful, _ create her own path. it is beautiful, the _ create her own path. it is beautiful, the connectionj create her own path. it is l beautiful, the connection is absolutely stunning, it shows how personal and how deeply thought through that statement was. in terms of that younger

generation stepping up, i know you were looking at them wanting to take their own path, so to speak, very much so, but so to speak, very much so, but so much obligation in so much service and duty that they also will be fulfilling.— will be fulfilling. that's ri . ht. will be fulfilling. that's right- many _ will be fulfilling. that's right. many of- will be fulfilling. that's right. many of them, l will be fulfilling. that's l right. many of them, the will be fulfilling. that's - right. many of them, the prince of wales, the new prince of wales, william, and the princess of wales will be looking at how they change their lives and step up to the roles, there were hints in the speech from the king that he would like his charities that he is going to have to step down from, look after. but we will have to wait and see. what we do know for sure, and this is reflected in the times, on the front page of their wrap, is it is an emotional time for prince charles, now king charles iii, and they —— and they say there, god save the king, and that anthem was sung for the first

evening. that would have been music to his mother's is. certainly the buckingham palace version, when king charles got out of the car with camilla, before they entered buckingham palace and many members of the crowd started singing it as well. we are seeing the slow transition, and in the times there are reports looking back to the queen's final conversations with her horse trainer, saying she was sharp as attack on tuesday, photographerjame barlow with photographer jame barlow with that photographerjame barlow with that fantastic photo of her smiling before she met the prime minister. and then we go to the sun, reuniting charles with his mother on theirfront page. they have god save the king and the masthead, and inside child says "it had to happen one day, but as many papers point out, it was king

charles was first address to the nation, his address to his mother, that has won over the nation, if the front pages are anything to go by. a, nation, if the front pages are anything to go by. a beautiful look through _ anything to go by. a beautiful look through the _ anything to go by. a beautiful look through the morning - look through the morning papers, everybody focusing on the new king, thank you mark. let's have a look at that first address from king charles, it has already been seen in part by millions of people around the world. as well as the warmest of tributes to his mother, queen elizabeth, it gives us the first insight into the sort of king he will be. let's ta ke let's take this moment to hear it in full. i speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. throughout her life, her majesty the queen — my beloved mother — was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother;

for her love, affection, guidance, understanding and example. queen elizabeth's was a life well lived; a promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing. that promise of lifelong service i renew to you all today. alongside the personal grief that all my family are feeling, we also share with so many of you in the united kingdom, in all the countries where the queen was head of state, in the commonwealth and across the world, a deep sense of gratitude for the more than 70 years in which my mother, as queen, served the people of so many nations. in 1947, on her 21st birthday, she pledged in a broadcast

from cape town to the commonwealth to devote her life, whether it be short or long, to the service of her peoples. that was more than a promise: it was a profound personal commitment which defined her whole life. she made sacrifices for duty. her dedication and devotion as sovereign never wavered, through times of change and progress, through times ofjoy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss. in her life of service we saw that abiding love of tradition, together with that fearless embrace of progress, which make us great as nations.

the affection, admiration and respect she inspired became the hallmark of her reign. and, as every member of my family can testify, she combined these qualities with warmth, humour and an unerring ability always to see the best in people. i pay tribute to my mother's memory and i honour her life of service. i know that her death brings great sadness to so many of you, and i share that sense of loss, beyond measure, with you all. when the queen came to the throne, britain and the world were still coping with the privations and aftermath of the second world war, and still living by the conventions

of earlier times. in the course of the last 70 years, we have seen our society become one of many cultures and many faiths. the institutions of the state have changed in turn. but, through all changes and challenges, our nation and the wider family of realms — of whose talents, traditions and achievements i am so inexpressibly proud — have prospered and flourished. our values have remained, and must remain, constant. the role and the duties of monarchy also remain, as does the sovereign's particular relationship and responsibility towards the church of england —

the church in which my own faith is so deeply rooted. in that faith, and the values it inspires, i have been brought up to cherish a sense of duty to others, and to hold in the greatest respect the precious traditions, freedoms and responsibilities of our unique history and our system of parliamentary government. as the queen herself did with such unswerving devotion, i too now solemnly pledge myself, throughout the remaining time god grants me, to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation. and wherever you may live in the united kingdom, or in the realms and territories across the world, and whatever may be your background or beliefs,

i shall endeavour to serve you with loyalty, respect and love, as i have throughout my life. my life will of course change as i take up my new responsibilities. it will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which i care so deeply. but i know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others. this is also a time of change for my family. i count on the loving help of my darling wife, camilla. in recognition of her own loyal public service since our marriage 17 years ago, she becomes my queen consort.

i know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which i have come to rely so much. as my heir, william now assumes the scottish titles which have meant so much to me. he succeeds me as duke of cornwall and takes on the responsibilities for the duchy of cornwall which i have undertaken for more than five decades. today, i am proud to create him prince of wales, tywysog cymru, the country whose title i have been so greatly privileged to bear during so much of my life and duty. with catherine beside him, our new prince and princess of wales will, i know, continue to inspire and lead our national

conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the centre ground where vital help can be given. i want also to express my love for harry and meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas. in a little over a week's time we will come together as a nation, as a commonwealth and indeed a global community, to lay my beloved mother to rest. in our sorrow, let us remember and draw strength from the light of her example. on behalf of all my family, i can only offer the most sincere and heartfelt thanks for your condolences and support. they mean more to me than i can ever possibly express.

and to my darling mama, as you begin your last great journey tojoin my dear late papa, i want simply to say this: thank you. thank you for your love and devotion to our family and to the family of nations you have served so diligently all these years. may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. king charles' first televised address as monarch. the award—winning writer and magazine editor tina brown has spent decades chronicling the british royal family. i will leave you with this interview filmed earlier this year, just ahead of the queen's platinumjubilee.

tina brown spoke to the bbc�*s katty kay about the queen's impact on britain's image both in the uk and abroad, and her unique life of service. the conundrum of the queen's impact, is itjust longevity? its all of it, isn't it? the longevity clearly is a major factor. three generations can remember nothing but the queen, so it's hard to even imagine how to be british without the queen. but it's also been her remarkable combination of temperament, judgement and composure, essentially. that has proved to be such a kind of focal point of british identity because in a way the queen has found a way to represent what we consider to be the best of being british. stoic, dutiful, humorous in her own way, unflappable, and she has never stepped over the line. after all of these years, we still don't know what the queen thinks about anything.

i mean, brexit, who knows what she thought? it is a remarkable strength, the power of the royal silence, essentially. of course, it was only possible for her because she grew up in an age when the media were not invasive and she could simply be a representationalfigure. much harder today to be a representationalfigure without revealing what you think and feel. there is a lovely scene in your book when you talk about a concert at windsor castle where she is sitting there, listening to this concert and you have no idea what she is thinking. is she dog tired and hating it or is she actually kind of in raptures and enjoying it? in a way, that was her power and you describe it as a "unifying power". it is a unifying power because everyone can project what they think onto it. they can say "the queen is loving this concert "like i am," or they can say, "look "at the queen, she is as bored as i am". uniformity of appearance, the way she has managed to create a uniform for herself, her particular look, her particular style, she never felt the need to update

or change with the era. essentially, she has looked the same all these years, it's enormously reassuring. indeed, we saw in the pandemic how even today, an absolutely different era of digital disruption and turbulence, somehow the queen came out and made that speech during the pandemic which ended, we will meet again, evoking of course vera lynn in the second world war, there was a kind of exhalation of breath and people felt it was going to be ok, and she does have that gift. is she an exception? you have written a lot about other members of her family and this notion of unflappability, duty and a strong sense of kind of duty, is she almost the exception that makes monarchy still relevant? the truth is the queen's whole ethos was forged by growing up in the second world war. i mean, they were bound by that ethos, that sense of duty for the country, patriotism, all those things, that the queen and prince philip sort of embodied.

but it was a lucky thing that the monarch who took over age 25 in 1953 had her particular combination of qualities. we tend to forget it was only 13 or 14 years since the abdication of her uncle. we had gone through the renaissance of the monarchy under george vi during the second world war when they became enormously popular. because they stayed in london in the blitz. but it could still have gone awry, it could still have cracked, if the younger sister, princess margaret, had been the monarch. she was a much more volatile, emotional, impulsive individual than her elder sister. it was sense and sensibility personified. and elizabethjust had those qualities — duty, inscrutability, authenticity, dogged hard work and service. she has never veered from that, it is quite remarkable. that she's been able to do it. i question really whether any modern person could sort of subsume themselves in that way.

it is quite a remarkable sacrifice, actually. i suppose one area where she insisted on having her own emotional way was in marrying prince philip. she could stand up for what she wanted and she made that very big stand for something that was notjust important to her, but really important to her reign. that was what was so wonderful about that relationship. it was the major thing she stood up for and with her usual good judgement, she chose the man she knew could make her happy and would be the perfect foil to her. she understood philip was a truth teller and that with him she would never be blindsided by self—delusion in some ways. philip kept her sort of straight about what she should think about things, that there was no toadying around with philip, and she needed that, she wanted that. because otherwise, it is a very isolating position to be always surrounded by people who are sort of, frankly, sycophants in one

form or another. she has met with 13 american presidents. we talk about longevity and everything she has seen, did she have a...would one ever know if she had a favourite or when one was particularly getting on well with? i am told she liked reagan. i mean, horses, charming, easy. she liked bush, i'm told. but the queen understands that her soft power is enormous. there was a moment when she met with the obamas and michelle obama put her hand on her back and the press made a lot of it. do you think that is the kind of thing that would have bothered the queen? no. the queen is really so beyond being bothered by that kind of thing. she knows who she is and she understands that not everybody quite interprets the arcane customs and rules around the monarch in the same way.

she has the most amazing manners and manners in her level of life means making someone else feel comfortable. so she would not have minded that. it's much more very often these kind of moments are about the courtiers around them who are the ones who are obsessed with status. in fact, the royals themselves are far less obsessed with that than the people around them are. i'm often asked when i am in the uk why do the americans love the royal family so much? what is your answer to that? what is it about america? because it's the one institution that is completely out of reach. you can't become a member of the royal family. you could marry someone in the royal family, i suppose. as an american has. well, most people don't. as an american has, exactly, but other than that you can't get in there. it is like this is the ultimate sort of ivory tower you can't penetrate.

and the sense of the history of the country, i think it's just very appealing. of course the institution of the monarchy is built on the shoulders of these people, this family, and so you have this combination of the sort of glittering diadem of essentially the crown, but these people are like anybody else's family, but writ large and high. so the ongoing drama people feel extraordinarily invested in these people. it is true here, but i think globally as well, right? it is almost part of the identity of britain as a global power. absolutely, the queen has been a global monarch. i mean, her tending of her role in the commonwealth has made her a global monarch because she has done these tours and tours and tours for years, she has received foreign prime ministers, commonwealth leaders, for 70 years. she is enknitted and embedded in the global community.

i think the queen's presence makes britain larger than it is because it has such global attention. we don't care what the royals in the netherlands are like or doing, we don't care what the king of spain is doing next week, we have no idea, but people are very, very involved with and invested in and focused on what the british royal family are doing at any given point of the day. can charles fill her shoes? i actually think charles will be a very good transitional monarch. his role is to get ready the whole institution for william. he has to do the modernising that requires to be done and he has really got to find a way to relate to the british people that is completely different because what he won't have and can never have is the queen's mystique. we already know way too much about charles. we already know what he thinks about most things. i think he is authentic and that is a very important thing if you're going

to be a popular monarch because people know that charles is a very decent man, they know what he cares about, his passion for the environment organic farming, his cares about climate change, these actually are very prescient concerns he has had for decades which now everybody recognises were the right concerns. so he has, i think, a good chance to be loved in a different way. in charles, they have a very decent statesman—like person and they have in william and kate, ithink, a remarkably lucky heir and his choice of wife has turned out to be a critical, extraordinarily successful addition to the family. so there is a real piece of luck there that again the heir, william, has got some of the things the queen has got. he is a judicious person. he is a cautious person. he is a decent person.

and temperamentally so much better in a position to take it over than his younger brother harry, who would have been, if he had been the elder son. i think the cambridges are a very lucky future for the house of windsor. i don't really know how they can actually bear to live the way they are going to have to live, but like the queen, they seem to have embraced it. it is more remarkable that kate has embraced it. she comes from a middle—class family and is not to the manor born and when she married william, there was a lot of how will this girl from a middle—class origins fit in and become a future queen? the answer to the question now is how can the house of windsor survive without kate? she has absorbed her role with such kind of remarkable poise. it is interesting because this is a time so different from the 19505 when the queen became queen, where everybody

puts their opinions about everything everywhere. and yet, it is a job and a role that demands that you do the opposite. will the monarchy inevitably with the next generation, charles and beyond him, william, who will be the first digital king, i guess, will the monarchy change? —— digital nomad king, i guess, will the monarchy change? how will it adapt? will it change to survive or flourish? the great question is how relatable can the royals be without losing so much mystique that they are boring to everybody? that is the route the european monarchs have gone. they are so ordinary to people that nobody cares. if they want to preserve any kind of gravitas, they have to have some mystique to them. i suspect that william and kate will be much more like the european monarchy.

i hope that they understand the power of the royal silence that the queen really has shown us works, frankly. british people see the monarchy as the summation of their history. and it is a way of being patriotic without being nationalistic, essentially. as we all look around the world and we see other systems, you have to ask if the monarchy went, what else? what is better? hello. i'll start this forecast for the week ahead with a look at the big picture in the atlantic because, after a very quiet august for tropical storms, this week we have seen two different storm systems — this one here, hurricane earl, this swirl of cloud was tropical storm danielle — and both of these are likely to have an indirect influence on our weather over the next 7—10 days. now, in the short term, we've had an area of low pressure with us over the last few days but that is now

pushing eastwards, high pressure building behind, and that means that for saturday, we're expecting more in the way of dry weather. there will still be some showers where you're close to that low across parts of eastern england, still this band of cloud bringing some patchy rain across parts of south east scotland and north east england. but elsewhere, we will see some spells of sunshine — perhaps the best of that through the day to be found across northern ireland and scotland once any early fog has cleared. temperatures between 18—22 degrees. it will feel fairly pleasant in the sunshine. now, through saturday night, we do see this frontal system gathering out towards the west and that will bring rain for some of us on sunday. some quite heavy bursts of rain pushing in across northern ireland. cloud will tend to fill in across western scotland, some rain here late in the day. could see see rain grazing into wales, maybe the far south—west of england. most other areas staying dry with some spells of sunshine but a shift in the wind direction, a southerly wind, that's going to start to make it feel a little bit warmer. now, if we look at monday's weather chart, this big low

spinning down here to the south—west, this will contain the remnants of what was tropical storm danielle. most of the rain from that will be moving in across spain and portugal — pretty soggy spell of weather to come — but what this storm system will do is it will feed some warmth northwards into the southern half of the uk, so some quite high temperatures on monday across parts of southern england into wales, to the south of this band of cloud and rain. that will be sitting across central parts and that will separate the warm air in the south, 26 degrees, from some much cooler airfurther north — a much fresher feel for scotland, northern ireland and the far north—west of england. looks like that band of rain will sink its way southwards into tuesday, so some rain across southern counties. behind that, again, the wind direction shifts, but back to northerlies this time, so it will feel that bit cooler. 17—23 degrees, but there should still be some good spells of sunshine. that's because high pressure is likely to be building in by this stage.

still low pressure spinning to the south of us — that may throw a frontal system into southern counties of england, maybe parts of south wales as we go through the day on wednesday. at this range, the detail may change. but for many, we will see some spells of sunshine, perhaps a bit more cloud filtering into some of these northern and eastern coasts. top temperatures of 17 degrees for glasgow, for belfast, 20 for plymouth, 21 in london. now, later in the week, i want to point out this area of low pressure. this likely to contain the remnants of hurricane earl. now, it looks like that might get scooped up by another low pushing out of north america. that will push wet weather northwards and it will help to build this area of high pressure. this looks set to build quite strongly across the uk as we head towards next weekend, and that will cause things to turn drier but, with a brisk northerly wind, it is likely to feel a little cooler.

working? good morning, and welcome to breakfast, with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. 0ur headlines today — love, loyalty and duty — king charles thanks his mother for her unwavering service, and makes a solemn vow in his first address as monarch. with such unswerving devotion, i too now solemnly pledge myself throughout the remaining time god grants me, to uphold the constitutional principles at the heart of our nation. and to my darling mama, as you begin your last greatjourney