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REVEREND DR Iain Greenshields was among the speakers at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday morning.

The Queen discussed her sketch for the Platinum Jubilee with the former Church of Scotland moderator weeks before her death.

King Charles has sworn to serve the people of the Commonwealth in his first declaration after formally being proclaimed sovereign. Read it in full here.

The move was one of first acts of Charles III after he formally was proclaimed King, following his mother’s death on Thursday.

Queen Elizabeth, the longest-reigning monarch in Britain's history, died on Thursday aged 96, and her son Charles succeeded to the throne immediately. Here is an explanation of the protocol surrounding the official accession of a new monarch and Saturday's ceremony formally proclaiming Charles as king.

The Very Rev Prof David Fergusson said ‘we give thanks for all that she has been to our Church and our nation’.

Iain Greenshields, who went to Balmoral last weekend, says she looked frail, but retained vitality in conversation

A clergyman who spent last weekend with the Queen at Balmoral says the 96-year-old was "full of fun" and the "life and soul of things", adding the monarch was "happy to be there for her final days"

The King will be formally proclaimed monarch at the Accession Council at St James' Palace