Dressed in all black, British Prime Minister Liz Truss addressed the nation this Thursday evening from 10 Downing Street, shortly after the announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II who had invested her in her post on Tuesday. .
“We are all devastated by the news we have just heard from Balmoral.
The death of Her Majesty the Queen is a huge shock for the nation and the whole world (…) It is a day of great loss, but Queen Elizabeth II leaves a great legacy”.
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“Today the Crown passes as it has for over 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 carry the enormous responsibility he now bears for all of us.
We offer her our loyalty and devotion, just as her mother devoted herself to so many people for so long.
And with the passage of the Second Elizabethan Age, we enter a new era in the magnificent history of our great country - just as Her Majesty would have wished - by speaking the words God save the King.
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