King Charles holds audience with Liz Truss before reception for world leaders at Buckingham Palace today | The Sun
KING Charles has held an audience with Liz Truss before a reception for world leaders.
His Majesty was pictured laughing with the Prime Minister after she shook his hand and curtseyed to him this afternoon.
It is Ms Truss' third audience with the King since he became monarch earlier this month.
The King and Queen Consort are also set to host world leaders and official overseas guests at the palace in an “official state event” later.
And the Prime Minister will meet Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Polish president Andrzej Duda in Downing Street.
It comes as world leaders travel to the UK ahead of Monday’s funeral service, when two million mourners are set to descend on London.
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At 8pm tonight the country will observe a minute's silence to remember the Queen.
People have been invited to mark the occasion privately at home, on their doorstep or street, or at community events and vigils.
It will come shortly after the Queen Consort pays a televised tribute to the late monarch, recalling her “wonderful blue eyes” and saying: “I will always remember her smile.”
Camilla, in pre-recorded words on the BBC, will speak of how Queen Elizabeth II was a “solitary woman” in a male-dominated world.
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She will add: “I can’t remember anyone except the Queen being there.”
There will also be a service of reflection near Falkirk, Scotland at 7.30pm.
It will see 96 lanterns, one for each year of the late monarch’s life, lowered into the pool of reflection at the foot of the Queen Elizabeth II Canal, before wreaths are placed into the water.
Yesterday the King thanked emergency workers for providing a ring of steel for his mother's funeral.
He greeted officers at the Metropolitan Police Service Special Operations Room in London ahead of what has been described as Britain's biggest ever security operation.
He and son Prince William also surprised mourners waiting in a five-mile queue to see the Queen lying in state.
Crowds cheered as the Monarch and his son arrived to thank people for waiting up to 26 hours to pay their respects to Her Majesty at Westminster Hall.
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Hundreds of royal fans in line in Lambeth, South London, applauded as Charles, 73, and William, 40, emerged together.
One person told Wills: "You'll be a brilliant king one day", before he said to another: "It really means a lot that you're here."
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