Prime Minister Liz Truss has met King Charles ahead of the Queen's funeral tomorrow.
The PM was pictured shaking hands with the new head of state in the 1844 room at Buckingham Palace on Sunday afternoon. The meeting came as final preparations were under way for Queen Elizabeth's funeral on Monday.
The King greeted Ms Truss at around 12.15pm before holding meetings with the leaders of other Commonwealth countries. Charles has become the head of state of 14 Commonwealth countries and the UK following his accession.
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Paying tribute to the late Queen, Liz Truss has previously said: " Queen Elizabeth II was the rock on which modern Britain was built. Our country has grown and flourished under her reign. Britain is the great country it is today because of her."
She further added: "Today the Crown passes - as it is has done for more than a thousand years - to our new monarch, our new head of state His Majesty King Charles III. With the King’s family, we mourn the loss of his mother.
"And as we mourn, we must come together as a people to support him. To help him bear the awesome responsibility that he now carries for us all.
"We offer him our loyalty and devotion just as his mother devoted so much to so many for so long. And with the passing of the second Elizabethan age, we usher in a new era in the magnificent history of our great country, exactly as Her Majesty would have wished, by saying the words God save the King."
The nation is set to hold a minute's silence to mourn the late monarch's death at 8pm on Sunday. Big Ben will toll to start the beginning of the national moment of reflection and the bell will be struck once more at 8.01pm as it ends.
Meanwhile, the public continued queuing for the final day of the lying in state in Westminster Hall, where the late monarch's coffin will remain until 6.30am on Monday.
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