Kate and Camilla have today hosted a lunch for governors-general of the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace, ahead of the ‘reception of the century’ tomorrow.

The new King Charles was given a pen ‘just in case’ by well-wishers on his walkabout in Cardiff yesterday after his latest ink disasters.

Speaking to The Royal Beat, Newsweek’s Chief Royal Correspondent Jack Royston said the King had heard the news at Dumfries House at 12.30pm.

The profane South African comedian told his guffawing audience on the Daily Show that King Charles is not the right person to lead the British monarchy.

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King Charles made a speech in Welsh on his first visit to Cardiff as monarch, after he was met cheering crowds after a service for the Queen at Llandaff Cathedral

Charles Sturt University said they will be implementing a new trial which will allow students who end their subject with a mark between 40 and 49 per cent to get a second chance to pass.

King Charles and the Queen Consort’s helicopter landed in Wiltshire this afternoon, an hour after leaving the the late Queen’s procession from Buckingham Place to the Palace of Westminster.

King Charles III led his siblings and senior Royal Family members in walking behind the Queen’s coffin as this afternoon it made its way from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall.

At 2.22pm Her Majesty was carried down The Mall on a gun carriage – a tradition dating back to the death of her great-grandmother Queen Victoria in 1901.