a ring their dreams ah, ready to june this week. do you w? ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. britain mourns its longest raining monarchs, queen elizabeth the 2nd. ah, hundreds pack saint paul's cathedral in london for a memorial service marking her life and reign. her son making his 1st address as

king charles a 3rd echo to pledge she made to serve her people that did promise of lifelong service. i renew you all to day and lead us worldwide, send their condolences to the royal family and there is a special gun salute with $96.00 shots to mark the queen's age. when she passed away with i manuscripts, makennan and welcome to our special coverage of the death of britons. queen elizabeth, who died in scotland, aged 96, her son unsuccessful king charles. the 3rd has made his 1st address to the nation and to the commonwealth. earlier, the new monarch greeted well wishes outside. buckingham palace like crowds gathered

to pay tribute to the queen. a king also met british prime minister lived trust for their 1st audience as head of state and head of government. and speaking in his 1st address as sovereign, the new king paid tribute to his mother and pledged the rest of his life to the service of the british people and the commonwealth. he also said he is counting on the loving support of his wife, camilla, who is now queen, consort of the united kingdom. i speak to to day with feelings of profound sorrow throughout her life. her majesty the queen, my beloved mother, was an inspiration. an example to me and to all my family. and we owe her the most heartfelt debt. any family could owe to their mother for her love,

affection, guidance, understanding, and example. queen elizabeth 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 all to day alongside the personal grief that all my family of 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 broadcast from cape town to the

commonwealth to devote her life. whether it be short or long to the service of her people's that to hers more than a promise. it was a profound personal commitment which defined her whole life. she made sacrifices for duty. her dedication and devotion of sovereign never wavered through times of change and progress through times of joy 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 makes as 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 paid tribute to my mother's memory and i honor 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 was still coping with the privations and aftermath of the 2nd 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 fates. 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 sovereigns, 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 pledged myself throughout the remaining time. god groan smith 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 that 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, consoled 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 air 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 dutch of cromwell, which i have undertaken for more than 5 decades. to day. i am proud to create him prince of wales, to were soak comely, the country whose title i been so greatly privilege to bear. during so much of my life and duty with catherine beside him. ah, new prince and princess of wales will, i know, continued to inspire and lead our national conversations, helping to bring the marginal to the center ground where vital help can be given.

i want also to express my love for harry and megan 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 condenses and support. they mean more to me than i can ever possibly express. we can talk now to the w. hannah clever hannah the very

1st speech made by king charles the 3rd. what were the most important things that he said he drew a very clear line from the duties and the traditions of his mother into what he was then planning for the future. i think a really important line is that he pledged to uphold the constitutional principles of the heart of our nation, which is phrased. he was quite an activist prince of wales himself. i think he's now gonna have to tie that down because now he's the demonic. and he also was relatively emotional and i think that also would point to a more kind of modern type of king that we're going to have now. all right, hannah, stay there. i'm going to come back here in just a moment. the 1st we're going to hear from members of the public who gathered outside buckingham palace earlier to lay flowers and express their condolences about the loss of the caste longest serving monarch. ah, a royal send off mocking the end of alive and the end of an era. $96.00 rounds were

fired, one for each year, queen elizabeth's life. ushering in a period of national mourning. but also heralding and new beginning. the now king charles greeted well wishes outside buckingham palace where emotions were still wrong on fairly well for girls. a very precious place to come to and the magistrate sure joy this but also celebration king charles and his wife camila made their way through the palace gate for the 1st time as king and queen consort

does no doubt that to many the new king has big shoes to fill. king charles the 3rd one will obviously role writing i to the very best of the visibility i would like to park on the queen. i think i was very, very special and she wasn't only the longest running more, not infrastructure. i think she was the best but more not likely in british history. buckingham palace announced that charles will be officially proclaimed king on saturday. a moment he's prepared for his entire life. many hope then you monarch will live up to his mother's image by keeping a steady hand at the helm. as the u. k. navigates through turbulent times and there's no doubting the strength of the emotions there. charles is in his early

seventy's, he's becoming king very late in life. can he ever be as loved as his mother was? no, but i think he's gonna be smart enough to take a kind of joint approach and tie himself very closely to his eldest son, william and, and his wife kate. now i'm going to be the prince and princess of wales. i think that's going to be his, the 8th caught up his sleeve. they are massively loved. he could serve as a kind of relatively well respected grandfatherly type of figure who then kind of usher's in this new generation. i think he's smart. he keeps those 2 by a side, a little tough call a very well loved royals, and that could then kind of work here for him to fill this gap and to, to make him enable him to fill those shoes. absolutely, and having learned from many decades of experience, reaching out to the people more of a touchy feely monarch than his mother was. i think that's definitely going to be

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