Transition problems for King Charles include style as well as politics
Britain's King Charles III walks beside the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it leaves the Abbey at the State Funeral Service for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, at Westminster Abbey in London on September 19, 2022.
Former long-serving editor at the Daily Nation. He writes the weekly Letter from London.
What you need to know:
The change of monarchs comes at a difficult time for the Commonwealth, with several members, such as Australia, facing internal pressures to remove the British monarch as their head of state.
One area where the new king will need no lessons from his mother is that of religious belief.
One aspect of the transition that has got many British people talking is whether King Charles’s personal style will differ from that of his mother.
So it is over… life in the UK returned to normal last week after 11 days of mourning the death at age 96 of Queen Elizabeth II, whose 70 years on the throne made her the longest reigning monarch in British history.
The statistics for the grieving period were breathtaking, including one that said an estimated four billion people, that is half of the population of planet earth, watched some part of the TV coverage of the Queen’s funeral on September 19.
