The new King Charles III thanks him with a very special card. for the messages of condolence that reached him after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. It also features a childhood photo of him with his mother.
King Charles III has personally sent a card to express his gratitude for the condolences that have reached him following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The eldest son of the late monarch sent several copies, which were provided with his seal, a short text and a special childhood photo, as a Twitter post shows, among other things.
Pictured is then three-year-old Charles with his mother at Balmoral Castle in 1952. The Queen died there on September 8th at the age of 96. Both stand in a window frame and gaze beaming into the distance.
“It was very kind of you to send me such a wonderfully generous message following the death of my beloved mother,” Charles wrote in the card. The “thoughtful words” were an “enormous consolation in his immense grief”. The text is signed Charles R. – the R stands for Rex, the Latin word for king.
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 at the age of 96 at her Scottish country estate of Balmoral. According to the death certificate, she died of old age. Her eldest son Charles and his sister Anne were at her deathbed. Two days later, Charles was officially proclaimed the new king.
