Queen Elizabeth II Has Died. Here's How Prince Charles Became  King Charles III

Queen Elizabeth II Has Died. Here's How Prince Charles Became  King Charles III

Following Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Thursday, Sep. 8, he automatically succeeded her as king of the United Kingdom, taking the name King Charles III.

Charles will make his first address to the public as head of state on the evening after Elizabeth’s death and will be officially proclaimed king.

King Charles’ coronation will likely not happen for at least several months because of the tradition .

A formal statement from Buckingham Palace also confirmed the widely anticipated decision that Charles’ second wife, Camilla, duchess of Cornwall, would be known as the “queen consort.”

As king, Charles is also Britain’s head of state, as well as the head of state for other countries in the “Commonwealth Realm” .

Charles has a public record going back 70 years. He’s had scandals, of course, including his separation from Princess Diana.

“There’s another role that he’s carefully carving out for himself at the moment, and that is as this environmentalist king-in-waiting,” 

How Charles rules, and what causes he takes up, may ultimately be determined by that most of all: the pressure the longest-serving heir faces to keep the institution intact.

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