eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific, 3:00 p.m. in the united kingdom. i'm jose diaz-balart joined by my friend and colleague chris jansing in london as we remember queen elizabeth ii. look at when lies ahead for the british monarchy. >> reporter: jose, i'm outside of buckingham palace, and what an extraordinary view onto history. people have been blocking in all day, many of them carrying flowers. just moments ago king charles iii was here greeting many of them. we'll see some of that coming up, but everyone continuing to gather on what is the first full day of mourning for the nation's longest serving monarch. just happening everywhere in london, stores are closing putting up signs saying it's out of respect for the loss of the queen and her loss is having a deep impact on many people including this woman who spoke to our partners at sky news.

>> i can't believe she's gone. it's a great loss, great loss. i just hope that charles can live up to what his mother has obviously instilled in him. that will be a wonderful legacy for him to carry forward. >> and just moments ago we saw king charles iii showing everyone what it means to carry on in the midst of grief, coming here to buckingham palace for the first time as king, shaking hands with some of the absolute throngs of crowds that have gathered outside in the wake of his mother's death. all of this with a host of tributes to the monarch who sat on the throne for seven decades. new local time, the bells at westminster abbey and other churches in london and all across the uk pealed in the queen's memory.

and one hour later the queen was honored with gun salutes at the tower of london, hyde park, edinburgh castle in scotland and several other locations around the united kingdom. later today king charles is going to meet with the new prime minister, liz truss, before delivering his first address to the nation. to start off our coverage this hour, nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter. here in london we have nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel outside balmoral castle in scotland, and daisy mcandrew and tim york. thank you all for being with us. molly, give us a sense of what things are going to look like here in london over the next few days. we're certainly getting a preview where i am as the crowds continue to descend on buckingham palace to show their respects. >> hey, chris, that's exactly right. i mean, and those crowds that you're seeing in front of

buckingham palace started yesterday after that statement, certainly grew after the official announcement of her death, but hundreds and hundreds of people will continue to come, those memorials at the buckingham palace and around the city are growing. we are over here in a different part of london in front of the houses of parliament. i can walk you through a little bit about what's been happening here. politicians have been taking the microphone to pay their own respects, to pay their own tribute to the queen. we do know later today as you mentioned, chris, that king charles iii will meet with the new prime minister liz truss for the first time. also happening right now, chris, there is a prayer service at st. paul's cathedral here in london. it is expected to be the first time that god save the king will play. that service is open to the public later today. chris, we are expecting king charles's first televised address to the nation. we understand he has already recorded it. it will play out for the nation

at 6:00 p.m. local, 1:00 p.m. eastern in new york where jose is. the other thing we are expecting as we go into these ten days ahead of the funeral, chris, is that we expect the queen's body to be moved down to london in the next few days, and then she will lie in state right behind me at the houses of parliament. we expect, chris, and we're already seeing that in the crowds at buckingham palace, we expect millions and millions of people to come here, and that is not an exaggeration to pay their respects when she's just behind me. chris. >> and richard, what do we expect to see in scotland in the coming days? >> reporter: so we're seeing some of it right now. this is a much more remote location. i'm outside balmoral castle, and the reason that the queen and many other senior royals like to come here is that it is so remote. it is a secluded area. the estate itself is about 50,000 acres, and people are not allowed inside. instead, they are coming to the

gate house, and they are coming in a steady stream hundreds, if not several thousand today. not seeing very many tears. instead we're seeing people who are somber. they're quietly coming. they're paying their respects. they're also saying thank you. they're coming with their families, with their dogs pushing children in strollers, writing notes, leaving notes, leaving flowers, and saying thank you to the queen, thank you for being a symbol of stability. thank you for being a source of comfort during difficult times. thank you for being the only queen that we have ever known, and the queen's body is still here, still inside the castle itself, and as molly was saying, over the next several days she is expected to be moved from here to edenboro scotland, and then on to london where there will be a series of events. first she'll be taken to the

royal palace, buckingham palace, then to westminster, a procession through the streets of london, which will also draw enormous crowds. dignitaries from around the world, heads of state and government including president biden are expected to come before finally the funeral where she will be buried next to her late husband prince philip at windsor castle. but while this part of what is code named operation london bridge is being carried out, there is a par lal procedure, which is the establishment on the throne of king charles. because while there is one series of events happening to honor and remember the late queen, at the same time king charles is establishing his bone fides. he is now the king officially,

he will be traveling to the four different nations that make up the united kingdom, scotland, wales, northern ireland and england to be formally accepted as the sovereign. >> and daisy, what we saw this morning with king charles moving among the crowds, all the things that richard just talked about, they have literal lirr been -- literally been decades in the making. few things are planned as clearly as the passing of a monarch. but behind the scenes, take us behind the scenes with the family and what you imagine is happening there. >> as richard was saying and, chris, as you were saying, it is an extraordinary situation that king charles -- and it's difficult for all of us to get used to saying that. it's an extraordinary situation he finds himself in having been the apprentice to this job since he was born, 73 years ago. finally it's his moment, but he's quite an elderly man

himself. as you said, things like the address to the nation that he's going to be giving in just a few hours from now, he will have been thinking about that address and what he wants to say and how he wants to portray himself for most of his adult life and yes, i suspect there will still be last minute tweaks. he's going to want to present himself as an alternative to his mother. his mother came to the throne age 25. in some ways she had no baggage. there were no expectations of her. people just felt terribly sorry for her, and they were very in love with her as this beautiful young grieving monarch. but of course with charles, people have opinions of him because he has been around such a long time. people have formulated either positive or negative opinions of him, and the thing about the queen was that everybody was very proud to have queen elizabeth ii as our monarch, and that's going to be -- obviously

they're very big shoes to fill for her son charles. is he going to manage to capture that essence of what it is to be a british monarch, and what it takes for us, the brits, to be very proud to have him. but he is going to want to be a different type, more modern representing every person. not just the church of england, for instance, here, so we know that he is going to want to tread his own path whilst being very respectful to his mother. it's going to be difficult to pull it off. >> well, tim, daisy's right. i mean, this is the speech he has written and rewritten countless times over the years. is it possible to overstate how important this is in setting the tone, in giving people perhaps a clue about what his monarchy will look like? >> i think we've had a bit of a clue already, as a matter of fact, because that walk about that we've just seen at buckingham palace, gave you an

insight into how relaxed prince charles is with members of the public, and whatever people's opinions of him may be, he's very, very good at getting out there, shaking hands, and talking to people. but the other thing that i noticed watching that, which is another sign of the changing times from the previous monarch is the number of smartphones that are now held up. you know, everyone's a paparazzi these days, and one of the reasons in her life that the queen didn't like to do walk abouts, she did not like to plunge into the crowds like that, which is that she didn't like people sticking their smartphones and taking photographs up so close to her. prince charles is much more relaxed with that part of life. i think that was a first glimpse if you like of modernization. there are much bigger challenges that lie ahead, way beyond the

events of the next few days. he's got to be win over the british people. he's got to try to find some popularity that has so far eluded him. that is going to be a big challenge. >> daisy, without a doubt he follows arguably the most popular monarch, certainly in modern times, and popular not just here but around the world, and you mentioned that he has very big shoes to fill. he is also someone who has been the king in waiting longer than anyone. it's something he has been training for his entire life. what will you be looking for in the days and weeks to come? >> i think one thing that i'm expecting to see is for not only king charles to take center stage, i think he's going to want to share some of the spotlight with his son prince william. i'm expecting to see this -- i mean, not literally as a double ax, the king will be the king,

but in some ways i'm expecting william to be very involved in a lot of the day-to-day decisions and for them to present themselves as almost like a chairman and a ceo. where william will really get stuck into running the royal family in the way that a ceo of a big multinational company, and charles will be the outward looking figure head, the person that is clearly at the top of the tree but is willing to share some of the workload and some of the spotlight. so that's one element that i think we'll see, and i think that will increase charles's popularity because william is very popular, so william can sprinkle some of his star dust on his father. and his father, when the public see him as a grandfather as we saw these adorable pictures at the diamond jubilee where naughty little louie was misbehaving and then went and sat on his grandfather's knee, i think that image was a very powerful image.

it spoke of charles as a family man, as a grandfather, because we got to come to terms with the fact that he is quite -- he's 73 years old. i think we'll see more of that, and i also think the role of camilla will be very important. camilla has done the most extraordinary in pr terms. she was vilified and incredibly unpopular after the miserable years of the charles and diana divorce, and she really has come full circle in many ways. she's now only a couple of points below charles in popularity, which for somebody starting from where she did was very, very impressive. she definitely makes charles more human, more cheerful. they laugh a lot. she's very good for him, and when he has a habit sometimes of getting a bit grizzly and grumpy, and she snaps him out of it. they make a very good double ax, and i think we'll see her being pushed to the front as well.

i think they will be king and queen in all that those words entail. and it was very interesting that just recently the queen made it clear that she wanted camilla to be a proper queen because that had always been a source of much controversy. >> richard engel, molly hunter and tim, thanks to all of you. jose, if i can just show you -- i don't know if you can see behind me, but what is a sign that the king, the new king is in residence. you see the flag that is flying over buckingham palace, sharper eyes than mine, my colleagues who work here believe it is different than the flag that flew when the queen was in residence. he's come back for the first time as king charles iii. jose. >> changes occur and you can see a representation of that right there behind you.

chris jansing, thank you so much. coming up, the uk didn't just get a new king. they also got a new prime minister this week. her historic week and what we can expect. but first, queen elizabeth met 13 out of the last 14 u.s. presidents. how will her death impact our special relationship with the uk. you're watching jose diaz-balart reports today with chris jansing. fshz fshz

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. 18 past the hour this morning, we have learned that president biden will be attending the queen's funeral in the united kingdom, according to a senior white house official. the president and first lady traveled to the british embassy last night where you see them there signing a condolences book and paid respects to the queen. over the course of her 70 years as monarch, queen elizabeth has helped preserve the close relationship having met with 13 sitting u.s. presidents. joining us now nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, and geoff bennett. what's the word from the white house on the queen's paszing? >> this was very notable and felt throughout washington. an outpouring of condolences and support. you did see the president and first lady issue a lengthy statement calling the queen so much more than a monarch and saying that she really defined

an era. then they made that unannounced stop to the british embassy where they brought a bouquet of flowers. they signed a guest book, and again, the president called her a great lady which he reiterated in some remarks last night at a fundraiser. he did indicate that he would probably go to the funeral and now we are learning from our own savannah guthrie that that is the expectation and plan for the white house that he and the first lady would make that trip even though they haven't actually formally announced it. of course washington is a place that the queen visited many times during her reign. as you mentioned, 13 sitting presidents. here the president did order flags to be lowered to half-staff, which you can see behind me hear at the white house and federal buildings and districts across the country. >> no news on when the announcement will be made that the president will be heading over to the uk? >> that is the expectation. we probably will learn more about that in the coming days. notably, the funeral may take place at the same time as the

u.n. general assembly in new york where many world leaders were expected to go, so there will be to be some shuffling there of course with many of those heads of state planning now to be at that all important funeral. >> we're seeing the images of the president meeting with the queen, the last 13th of june 2021 at windsor. jeff, over her tenure, the queen had historically and it's traditionally been quiet when it comes to discussing, you know, big political issues, big issues of the day. but now king charles has been more vocal on issues like climate change. how do you think that that may impact things moving forward? >> you're right about that, jose. the queen did not have a direct role in the transatlantic relationship, although she was very much the heart of british identity. we'll have to see what role king charles decides to play, but it's really remarkable as monica points out that the queen met with 13 of the last 14 u.s. presidents. you know, perhaps no other public figure had met personally with so many american leaders

and certainly no other public figure had such a direct up close view of the upheavals of war and technology and politics that have come to define this so-called special relationship between the u.s. and the uk. and the queen, by being such an enduring figure, she in many ways provided u.s. presidents a connection to their predecessors, and she was an example of what a life devoted to public service can look like even with all of the royal trappings that were available to her because she was the queen. and just, you know, reflecting on modern presidential history, i think you could argue that ronald reagan likely had the best relationship with her, given that their friendship extended beyond his presidency. the two of them bonded over a shared love of horses. you know, she was an english rider. he was that western cowboy, at least in the movies and back in 1982 he was the first u.s.

president to spend the night in windsor castle. decades later you had the obamas, president obama met three times with the queen and said that she was one of his favorite people, and then fast forward to the current moment, president biden who was by no means an angelo file, he's very proud of his irish background. he jokes often about british rule of his ancestral lands. he paid the queen, as he could do, paid her the ultimate compliment saying that he was reminded of his mother in the time he spent with queen elizabeth, jose. >> geoff bennett, monica alba, i thank you both for being with us this morning. i want to go back to chris jansing in london. >> reporter: thank you so much, jose, now that the wind blew the right way, we were able to see that the royal standard that was flying over buckingham palace is the same that flew for the queen. it is now of course the king's standard and prince william is now heir to the throne. what to expect from the next

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it is 27 past the hour. i'm chris jansing live outside of buckingham palace where king charles arrived just a short time ago and is set to give his first address as king just hours from now. joining us now is nbc's keir simmons and server of all things royal. you couldn't help and the crowds have been getting bigger and bigger, you couldn't help but think about the call of duty you have as a new monarch or as a member of the royal family, you're grieving your mother, and yet the expectation of all these folks is that you are here. >> yeah. there have been some moments that have really brought that home this week, haven't there? first, the queen herself meeting with the prime minister and appointing a new prime minister just days from death. that's duty. it's an extraordinary symbol of her dedication to service, and now you see king charles, and you have to pinch yourself, don't you? it's king charles walking into buckingham palace for the first time. you're watching him do that and shaking hands with the public

ensuring that he connects himself with the public as quickly as possible whilst he is still grieving his mom. we are all feeling, many of us this morning, that sense of going about your business and then suddenly you stop and you remember the queen is dead. how must that be for charles himself? and yet he has to put on a brave face. i mean, he looked like he was relaxed and putting his best foot forward, but still, though, how can you not be feeling mixed emotions when your mom is gone? that is service in the most pure sense is the pain of it that you just have to keep going, and that's, i think, what we saw from king charles today. >> keir simmons, thank you very much. as we see these photos of the king, king charles and the queen consort, let's go back to jose. jose. >> chris, thank you so very

much. you know, the monarchy's line of succession is now shifting as king charles takes the throne, it puts his son, prince william first in line. nbc's stephanie gosk reported on what the queen's death means for william and kate. she joins us this morning. like his dad, this is a role william has been preparing for his entire life. how much will things change for will and kate? >> you know, jose, we talk about the dramatic change king charles is going to be going through with his life. there are charges for prince william. he's first in line to the throne. with that come new titles for him and his wife kate middleton and new responsibilities. on wednesday the duke and duchess of cambridge brought their children to the first day of school. george, charlotte, and louie, by thursday afternoon the couple would have new titles and new roles. their royal lives very different. william and kate are now the duke and duchess of cornwall and

cambridge and prince william is the heir to the throne. he takes over the duke of cornwall from his father. it comes with an estate that includes more than 130,000 acres of land worth over a billion dollars. as duke, charles used the money it generated at least in part to fund his charities. in a 2019 itv documentary, prince charles inside cornwall, prince william recognizing the significance of his future role. making kate the princess of wales, the same title held by william's mother the late princess diana. earlier this year, the couple moved to a new royal residence, adelaide cottage in windsor outside of london, at the time the palace noting they would be taking on far more senior roles

in the royal family, something that had already begun as the queen stepped back from royal engagements. for the platinum jubilee william and kate made a controversial trip to commonwealth nations in the caribbean, many of those countries considering severing ties with the monarchy altogether over its colonial past. william addressed the issue in a closely watched speech navigating one of the thorniest issues facing the monarchy. >> we support with pride and respect your decisions about your future. relationships evolve, friendship endures. >> reporter: during the queen's platinum jubilee on monday, this moment on the balcony more poignant, the succession to her throne at her sides. a public showing that the future of the monarchy was now in her son and her grandson's hands. so the succession is prince william is first. then it's his children, george, charlotte, and louie. fifth in line to the throne right now is prince harry. it's not you, jose.

it's prince harry. >> i have nothing to do with any royal family. stephanie gosk, thank you so much. great seeing you. i want to go back now to chris jansing in london. chris. >> reporter: let's talk more about this. aaron hill, senior editor of "people royals." and a social and political commentator both with me. you have the queen who for being so seen, the most traveled royal ever really kept things very close, rarely said anything about how she felt certainly politically. on the opposite end of the spectrum, you have princess diana open about almost everything. how does it appear to you, what will we see from william and kate? are they following the queen's path as opposed to his mother's? >> i think we're going to see a combination, especially with kate, who has really modeled herself after the queen in so many ways, but also you can't

deny william's influence from his mother who's really propelled the monarchy into the modern age, is her influence is really going to be seen when william one day takes the throne, turns his more, you know, personal interaction with the public definitely speaking out a little bit more on issues like he already is on climate change. so i think we're going to see him definitely following his grandmother's lead in a lot of ways. bringing in those elements to modernize the monarchy. >> i wonder obviously when they were dating they were tabloid fodder, but now how much do we really know about william and kate? i mean, they release just so much photos, of course, but it all seems to be very carefully managed. what do we really know? >> i mean, i think we know what the tabloids have told us. i don't expect them to introduce us into their lives in any way further to be honest with you. i think the royal family will always try and maintain a

certain distance. they're not, you know, regular celebrities, and i think there's a danger in them being too open, partly because i think at this point people are starting to ask more questions about their role and whether or not it's necessary. so you know, how much do you want to sort of expose yourself and show that, hey, we're just kind of regular people here when the ordinary people can say, well, great, you're just like us so you know, really what do we need you for. >> charles has talked in the past about slimming down the monarchy to answer the people who say it's just all too much. what exactly would a slimmed down monarchy look like, though? >> we did see it in june on the balcony where we're used to seeing a full balcony, all the extended members of the royal family, and it's clear that

charles is preferring a slimmed down monarchy when it comes to what they're displaying to the public and how they're being represented and that would be him and camilla, his queen consort, and then william, kate, and their three children, and that's the future of the monarchy right there. >> i wonder, lola, if all the goodwill and this outpouring that we see of love, frankly, for the late queen will provide an opening for king charles for him to have an opportunity to in some way introduce himself as the head of the monarchy. >> i mean, we all know charles. he's been around for a long time, and no one's a stranger to him. him as a king, i think, is a slightly different proposition because there's a lot of stuff that people remember, and some of it is not the most tasteful. so i think he'd have to do something to sort of reengineer his image in the public, and particularly with the commonwealth countries, i think there will be more and more questions about exactly what is the need for a king charles or a

monarchy going forward because, you know, why do countries need to be -- why do we need a monarchy as a head of state. so i think he's got a lot of work to do, not just in terms of his public perception but actually really shifting relationships particularly with the commonwealth who i think will continue to basically say we want to be republics. we don't want king charles or king william going forward. >> aaron and lola, thank you very much, and jose, when you think about it, the extraordinary pressure, the very consequence decisions that the new king charles will have to make in the coming days, weeks, and months. >> yeah, and the question of relevancy, right? and that's also something that we're going to be seeing evolve there in the uk as well. chris, thanks. we're going to check up now on some other headlines this morning. the justice department says it will appeal a judge's ruling for

a special master to look at the documents seized during the search of former president trump's mar-a-lago home. the doj also asks for a partial stay of the ruling while the appeal is pending. the judge is giving trump's legal team until 10:00 a.m. monday to respond. in uvalde, texas, violence overnight in a community still recovering from may's traumatic elementary school massacre. two minors were shot and wounded in memorial park in what police say was a suspected gang-related shooting. president biden just arrived in ohio where he will tout the chips act and the bipartisan infrastructure law. he'll speak at a new manufacturing facility funded by the biggest single private sector investment in ohio. there you see air force one arriving in ohio. and an nbc news analysis of new government data found that there are currently more than 230 afghan children alone in the

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now the uk's fourth prime minister in just six years will have to take all of this while the kingdom mourns the passing of its longest serving monarch. joining us now david ignatius, foreign columnist and associate editor at "the washington post." also an msnbc contributor. david, it's great seeing you. put into perspective a little bit of what the prime minister is facing. >> so jose, liz truss as you said faces all of the bills of the post-brexit britain coming due. britain is suffering from high inflation, recently calculated at about 10%. it has energy bills that are so high that truss had to reverse herself a little bit and promise, in effect, a capped energy bills for the british people. it has -- the problems of its relations with parts of the united kingdom. scotland is restless, really was

unhappy about leaving the european union. northern ireland, we still have continuing tensions, questions about how that border will be administered, and finally liz truss facing the fundamental question for any british prime minister, which is what is the relationship with the united states. we all speak about the special relationship between britain and the united states. as britain has become less of a power in the world, its military is smaller, less of a factor than it once was, what is it that britain contributes? how does britain punch above its weight? i've met with liz truss many times. she's a plain spoken woman whereas boris johnson, her predecessor was a charmer. boris johnson could charm the birds out of the trees as some would say. liz truss is very direct, very blunt. she'll be a different kind of personality. finally, she couldn't be more different from her new monarch king charles. king charles is cerebral,

sometimes moody, intellectual, passionate about climate change, passionate in his views about modern architecture and some of the things he doesn't like about the modern world. liz truss is very much more plain down to earth. how those two will together work to steady britain that's really going to be suffering the loss of queen elizabeth, it will be one of the things i'll be watching the most closely. >> and david, talk to me about the northern ireland protocol. there is some tension there, and you just kind of mentioned it. >> so the question really is in this post-brexit world, how will northern ireland, a part of britain, manage its border with the republic of ireland to the south? will there be reposition of the kind of controls that irish have warned on both sides of the border could lead to a resumption of the terrible troubles that the good friday

accord resolved. that was an issue that boris johnson struggled with, the conservative party, all brexit advocates have struggled with, one of the biggest arguments for britain remaining in the european union was that you could finesse those issues. they'll come at truss hard, and we'll see, i think we're going to see a period in britain and in ireland as well of goodwill after the death of queen elizabeth. i don't think people want to make trouble immediately, but that's an issue that she's going to have to step up to in the months ahead. >> david ignatius, thank you so much for being with us this morning. i want to go back now to london with chris jansing. chris. >> thank you so much, jose, and even the sports world is paying tribute to the queen. the premier league postponing this weekend's soccer games, and there were several moments of silence after her death. in england, manchester united

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speech? >> enormous power. we're still quoting the first words queen elizabeth said many years ago, my life whether it be long or short. and it was certainly long. so first impressions will matter here. that seems odd to say about a 73-year-old man. but prism has shifted. and the constitutional monarchy is a complicate institution to continue, but i think that as an american once said, mark twain, i think the reports of death of the monarchy are premature and greatly exaggerated. >> a cultural icon. seven decades during which she ruled. she became an icon of the pop world. warhol glorified her. and just looking at some of the many musicians and artists that

have reacted. paul mccartney. there you see it, god bless her, may she rest in peace, long live the king. and elton john who famously sang at princess diana's funeral had a moment where he spoke about the queen last night. and are the days of a monarch becoming a culture rap icon over? >> they aren't, but longevity -- actuarial tables matter here. she became queen in her mid-20s. and now there was obviously a great longevity genes there. unlikely unless there is a real scientific breakthrough that charles at 73 will reign for 70

years. a safe prediction to make. but the fact that elizabeth was part of the cultural ethos for so long, part of the wallpaper of global life for 70 years through storm and strife, and to expect any successor to have that kind of an impact is unreasonable i think. i think we'll see a very well thought out address that will try to strike a key note for what king charles would think would be i suppose a 20 year or so reign if all goes well. and in 20 years, as we would say in the south, ain't nothing. you know, winston churchhill has been on everyone's mind because he was queen elizabeth's first prime minister, reputed to have said always set out as you intends to carry on. and i'm sure that kind of advice is very much in the king's mind

right now. >> thank you so very much. that wraps up the hour for us. we thank you so much for the privilege of your time. chris jansing will of course continue her coverage. thank you for being with us. i'll be back for another hour of coverage with katy tur who is also this london. we'll be right back. is also this london we'll be right back. digestive s. it's pretty calm in here with align probiotic. you see... your gut has good and bad bacteria. and when you get off balance, you may feel it. the bloating, the gas - but align helps me trust my gut again. plus, its recommended by doctors nearly 2x more than any other probiotic brand. just one a day naturally helps promote a balanced gut. and soothe occasional bloating gas and discomfort. align probiotic. welcome to an align gut. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪♪ good day, i'm katy tur in london alongside jose diaz-balart. and as the world settles into a new realty that nine out of ten people on earth have never known a sovereign on the british throne not named elizabeth. and now in just two hours, king charles the iii, new monarch in 70 years, will deliver his inaugural address. here he is this morning shaking thegathered hoping to catch a glimpse of their new king. and his upcoming speech will be part of what has been a momentous day across the united kingdom. including this booming tribute in hyde park right next to