Overview
- King Charles marked the centenary with a Buckingham Palace video, released Tuesday, recorded in Balmoral’s library and praising his mother’s constancy and devotion to duty.
- The St. James’s Park memorial won final city approval and features a bronze of the young Queen by Martin Jennings, which the King and Queen are due to view at the British Museum.
- The day’s central event is a Buckingham Palace reception bringing together the full royal family with representatives of charities the late Queen supported.
- Charles was named patron of the new Queen Elizabeth Trust, created to continue the charitable work linked to her decades of patronage.
- Other tributes include Princess Anne opening the Queen Elizabeth II Garden in Regent’s Park and a BBC film in which Queen Camilla recalls Elizabeth II’s unwavering sense of duty, as new polling reports 81% of Britons still view the late monarch positively despite ongoing scrutiny tied to Prince Andrew’s Epstein links.