King Charles III live updates: Queen Elizabeth II’s body to be moved from Balmoral to Edinburgh, Australia to hold national day of mourning

As we heard earlier, the Governor-Normal David Hurley will preside at a particular assembly of the Federal Govt Council this morning.

• It’s going to be held at Authorities Home at 11:00am
• Instantly following the Federal Govt Council assembly, the Governor-Normal will journey to Australian Parliament Home to learn the proclamation
• Proclamations are additionally being held in quite a lot of different states over the approaching hours, together with NSW, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania

Later this night (which will probably be daytime within the UK), Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin will journey in a hearse from Balmoral Fortress to The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

• The cortege is because of depart at round 10:00am (that is about 7:00pm AEST tonight), and can journey from Balmoral on the A93 to Aberdeen, and Dundee and Edinburgh by way of the A92 and the A90.
• Between 10:00am and a couple of:00pm (7:00pm and 11:00pm AEST), a variety of occasions will happen alongside the route, with viewing platforms in place at Ballater, Aberdeen and Dundee

There can even be two public proclamations in Edinburgh, starting at noon within the UK, to announce the Accession of the King.

Talking on the ABC’s Insiders program a bit of earlier, former prime minister John Howard says leaders from either side of politics have been charmed by Queen Elizabeth II.

“I do know that Bob Hawke, who occasionally would speak to me in regards to the position and the establishment, spoke very warmly of her,” he mentioned.

“They’d a standard sporting ardour which might have enlivened their exchanges quite a bit.”

Former Labor prime minister Paul Keating says she “instinctively connected herself to the general public good”.

“Within the twentieth century, the self grew to become privatised, whereas the general public realm, the realm of the general public good, was broadly uncared for,” Mr Keating mentioned in an announcement.

“Queen Elizabeth understood this and instinctively connected herself to the general public good in opposition to what she recognised as a tidal wave of personal curiosity and personal reward. And he or she did this for a lifetime. By no means deviating.”

King Charles has had a long-standing love affair with Australia, courting again to his faculty years.

The brand new monarch spent two phrases in 1966 on the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar Faculty in Victoria, describing his time there as “probably the most fulfilling of his entire schooling”.

He has since visited Australia 16 instances, together with in 1994 when he was shot at with two blanks by a pupil protester throughout an Australia Day speech.

Talking on the ABC’s Insiders program a short while in the past, Editor-at-Massive of The Australian Paul Kelly says King Charles’ affection for Australia by no means waned.

In truth, the then-Prince of Wales was even plotting to maneuver to Australia in his 20s.

“Within the Nineteen Seventies when he was a younger man, one of many passions of Prince Charles was to return and reside on this nation as Governor-Normal. I’ve learn the paperwork about this. This was a profound ambition. He pushed it for a very long time,” Mr Kelly mentioned.

“That did not occur, however when he subsequent visits this nation, he’ll go to as King accompanied by his Queen. That is fairly a transition.”

Hey Eli, Authorities Home in Brisbane will maintain a public ceremony this afternoon.

Official friends will embody the Premier, Chief Justice, the Opposition Chief and Members of Parliament.

The ceremony will probably be replicated throughout 15 Commonwealth nations.

Former ABC chief international correspondent Philip Williams is in London, the place mourners are persevering with to assemble exterior Buckingham Palace.

As he writes, from a looming power disaster to local weather change, Britain’s woes are set to worsen, “and no change from Queen to King goes to alter that”.

“As a lot as our newly minted King Charles will wish to alleviate his individuals’s struggling, there may be little he can do to assist aside from provide hope and power.

“It is one thing his mom did extraordinarily effectively. Whilst a youngster throughout World Battle II, she spoke on the radio to nervous kids, reassuring them the German bombing would finish at some point and the whole lot can be alright.

“Proper by means of her lengthy life, she was the soother in chief providing sympathy and hope to these affected by wars and pure disasters and terrorism.

“After the Bali bombings in 2002, the Queen attended a particular service at St Paul’s to supply prayers for the victims of that atrocity. For the hundreds of Australians dwelling in London on the time, it meant lots.”

In some lighter information, West Newton, a six-year-old gelding that was bred by Queen Elizabeth II, rallied from sixth place to win by a half-length at Pimlico in a single day.

West Newton is out of the mare Queen’s Prize, additionally bred by the late monarch.

Projections of Queen Elizabeth II embellished Parliament Home in a single day, displaying a reel of photographs of the Queen all through her lifetime.

Scrawled throughout the constructing’s face was additionally the phrases of the late Queen:

“Australia in the midst of my lifetime has firmly established itself amongst probably the most revered nations of the world.”

Requested why Australia wants a king, Mr Dutton says debate in regards to the monarchy and the republic “is for an additional day, to be trustworthy”.

“I feel, David, in the intervening time we mourn the lack of an unbelievable world
chief, a girl who was clearly an incredible position mannequin to many ladies, to many feminine leaders the world over.

“We’d like a King as a lot as we did a Queen, as a result of now we have a stability in our system that served us effectively and I do not imagine in
disrupting that.”

The Opposition Chief is showing now on the ABC’s Insiders program.

Requested if he helps the PM’s determination to make the Nationwide Day of Mourning on September 22 a public vacation, Peter Dutton says sure.

“I feel issues have been handled appropriately. A couple of
rogue parts on the aspect. However principally individuals have been respectful and I feel that is precisely appropriately.

“I feel the best way wherein the federal government has responded has been very skilled, totally applicable and never simply the Prime Minister, however the Premiers, the chief ministers, others…  everybody felt this loss and expressed it appropriately.”

Recalling the sacking of former prime minister Gough Whitlam,  Mr Howard says the Queen dealt with the “best and most tough” political occasion of her reign with poise.

“I feel that the Queen’s remedy of Australian Prime Ministers was at all times applicable to the circumstances,” Mr Howard mentioned.

“She got here by means of that I would say with flying colors as a constitutional monarch.”

Requested if he anticipated a shift in assist for the monarchy with King Charles III taking the throne, Mr Howard says he has little question that the Queen’s private reputation solidified assist inside Australia.

“I recall the late Neville Wran, a robust republican, saying that the most important drawback now we have is the immense reputation of the Queen.
That was extensively understood.

“I feel there’s additionally a keener appreciation of the worth of the establishment and its power. Folks look all over the world in the intervening time and the choice governance methods on provide, even in democracies, do not look all that flash on events.”

Former prime minister John Howard is up on Insiders now.

He says the Queen carefully adopted Australia’s referendum to turn out to be a republic, including that she “at all times revered” the nation’s independence.

“The previous few days earlier than the vote, my workplace and her personal secretary have been exchanging drafts of three press statements, certainly one of them within the occasion of the republic getting up, and certainly one of them within the occasion of the republic happening and one if we had the inconceivable results of a combined outcome,” Mr Howard says.

He says he has “little question she was happy with the outcome, however she by no means sought to affect it”.

“She continued to do her job and, time and again, I noticed an individual
completely dedicated to fulfilling that promise she made method again in 1947 in Cape City on her twenty first birthday.

“That is when she mentioned her life can be dedicated to the service of the individuals that might name her Queen. She saved that promise.”

The PM says “the second Elizabethan period has handed”.

“King Charles might want to forge his personal path. King Charles has [been] outspoken on points resembling the necessity for the world to problem local weather change and act.”

Requested if he ought to proceed to advocate for these causes, Mr Albanese says “that is a matter for him, in fact”, however that in his view it “can be applicable”.

“I feel
coping with the problem of local weather change should not be seen as a political difficulty, it needs to be seen as a difficulty that’s about humanity and about our very high quality of life and survival as a world.”

Requested why Australians stay so connected to the Queen, the Prime Minister says she was a “reassuring presence” at a time of “turbulence and alter”.

“She was a continuing. She developed as effectively. For those who take a look at the engagement, it
developed over time. When she first visited right here, again in 1954, it was a unique Australia, however on that go to, she went to virtually 60 cities and cities, proper round Australia, each state and territory.”

Mr Albanese says they will make up for the sitting days that will not go forward this week.

“It could be tough to envisage parliament sitting and going by means of the adversarial exercise that happens in our parliament, beneath our Westminster system, that we have inherited.”

The Nationwide Day of Mourning will probably be held on September 22.

“I spoke to all Premiers and chief ministers yesterday and I am writing to them formally this morning, they’ll have acquired their letters by now,” Mr Albanese mentioned.

“They’ve all agreed that it is applicable that or not it’s a one-off nationwide public vacation.”

The Prime Minister is at present talking on the ABC’s Insiders, and says he’ll journey to London together with the Governor-Normal on Thursday.

“The funeral service will, in fact, be on Monday, which was introduced in a single day by the Palace. I
will return on Wednesday night with the Governor-Normal after which the Nationwide Day of Mourning and the [National Memorial Service Day] is ready to be the day after.”

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Most Australians have by no means seen every other face on their cash aside from that of Queen Elizabeth II.

So, with a brand new monarch on the throne, what’s going to occur to the cash?

Michael Theophilis from the Australian Catholic College says it is “unimaginable to do a recall and remind of each coin somebody has in a jar or the attic”.

“In order that’s not going to be the case. New coinage will probably be introduced into circulation as years proceed, and thru injury and loss and regular patterns of circulation, these cash will probably be taken out of circulation.

“When it comes to timing, the Royal Australian Mint has indicated that it will most likely be someday subsequent 12 months in 2023 that that course of for us will happen.”

Morning Nick. A proclamation ceremony will probably be held in Victoria tomorrow morning for King Charles III.

The Governor of Victoria, Linda Dessau, will maintain the ceremony at 11:00am.

Senior workplace holders can even re-swear oaths to the brand new King.

It was 1977. Hundreds of individuals stood shoulder-to-shoulder alongside Perth’s Esplanade, craning their necks in a bid to see the Queen. To 1 younger boy, it felt “like the entire world had rocked up”.

Peter Bewick and his two older brothers pushed their method from the very again of the pack to the entrance, and pressed their our bodies in opposition to the skinny rope dividing them from royalty.

“The factor is, I am unable to bear in mind what I had for breakfast yesterday, so it is actually fairly weird that what occurred that day remains to be very, very clear,” Peter says.

Take a look at the total story by Monique Ross.