{"id":46600,"date":"2022-09-10T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T10:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/king-charles-iii-pledges-lifelong-service-as-britain-s-new-monarch\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T08:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:10:49","slug":"king-charles-iii-pledges-lifelong-service-as-britain-s-new-monarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/king-charles-iii-pledges-lifelong-service-as-britain-s-new-monarch\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III pledges &#8220;lifelong service&#8221; as Britain&#8217;s new monarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Throughout her life, Her Majesty the Queen (&#8230;) was an inspiration,&#8221; he said in his televised speech. &#8220;Queen Elizabeth was a life well lived; a promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service I renew to you all today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he felt &#8220;profound sorrow&#8221; over the death of his mother and that he shared the public&#8217;s &#8220;sense of loss beyond measure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth II, Britain&#8217;s longest-reigning monarch in history, died at Balmoral, Scotland, on Thursday, aged 96.<\/p>\n<p>Charles, 73, will be officially proclaimed King at the Accession Council on Saturday in a ceremony held at St. James&#8217;s Palace in London.<\/p>\n<p>Charles bestowed the titles of Prince and Princess of Wales on his eldest son William and daughter-in-law Kate &#8212; titles that he and his late wife Diana previously held.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed love for his son Harry and daughter-in-law Meghan Markle as they &#8220;continue to build their lives overseas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44099 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/20220910f21d502d329948908a93676c84cf436b_31282b77-e996-4633-ae59-86bb4e245199.jpg\" alt=\"Britain&#039;s Prince Charles addresses the opening ceremony of the World Leaders Summit at the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, Britain, Nov. 1, 2021. (Xinhua\/Han Yan)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44100 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/20220910f21d502d329948908a93676c84cf436b_f0fd8404-722d-49f8-ab28-561fbd839ffd.jpg\" alt=\"A screen commemorating Britain&#039;s Queen Elizabeth II is seen in London, Britain, on Sept. 9, 2022. (Photo by Stephen Chung\/Xinhua)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Britain&#8217;s King Charles III on Friday pledged &#8220;lifelong service&#8221; in his first address to the nation and the Commonwealth after assuming the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46600"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46600"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}