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Evening Standard
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Robert Jobson and Nicholas Cecil

‘I feel the weight of history,’ King Charles says in historic address to MPs

King Charles III told how he felt “the weight of history” as he delivered a historic address to both Houses of Parliament on Monday before flying to Scotland on a sad journey to honour the Queen.

In the magnificent Westminster Hall, he stressed to MPs and peers how he was “resolved faithfully” to follow the late Queen’s “selfless duty” in serving the United Kingdom and maintaining “the precious principles of constitutional government which lie at the heart of our nation”.

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