A woman who kissed her cheek King Charles III as he greeted the crowd before entering the Buckingham Palace I told CNN Why did you decide to kiss him?
“I couldn’t believe it and I said to him, ‘Can I kiss you?’ And he said, ‘well, yes.’ So I grabbed it and I’m really happy,” Jenny Assiminios told CNN .
“It never crossed my mind” that she would kiss a king, she said, adding that he looked sad and it was “just a feeling” that came to comfort him as he wept for his mother.
“He’s adorable, he’s perfect,” she said.
She said she loves real family and follows the life of the British monarchy.
Others in the crowd earlier shook the king’s hand and shouted good wishes for him.
Speech
The new king will address this Friday to a nation mourning the death of his mother after seven decades on the throne, as a period of national mourning begins for the only queen most Britons have known.
Charles, who rushed to join the Queen at her Scottish home on Thursday, returns to London with wife Camilla, now Queen Consort, before meeting Prime Minister Liz Truss and making a statement at the TV.
The new king is due to deliver a speech to the country around 6pm local time (2pm GMT), House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said on Friday.
The death of the Queen, the UK’s longest-reigning monarch and an imposing presence on the world stage for 70 years, has drawn condolences from around the world.
This Friday, people began to gather again outside Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle to place flowers and take pictures of the tributes. Posters across the city displayed messages of condolence and newspapers carried front-page photographic tributes to the Queen.
Buckingham Palace said there will be a period of mourning to be observed by members of the family and the royal house until a week after the funeral, the date of which has not yet been confirmed but is expected to take place in about 10 days.
(Reporting by Tara Subramaniam, Andrew Raine, Rob Picheta, Ed Upright, Aditi Sangal and Adrienne Vogt of CNN; with information from Reuters)
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