King Charles to attend Balmoral for private prayer on anniversary of Queen’s death
dailyrecord.co.ukKing Charles will attend a church near Balmoral to remember the late Queen on the second anniversary of her death.Charles will head to Crathie Kirk, where Queen Elizabeth worshipped, for a Sunday morning service, private prayer and reflection in remembrance of his late mother, two years on from his accession to the throne.The King, 75, has been staying on his Aberdeenshire estate in the Highlands, where his mother died peacefully at the age of 96 on September 8 2022.At Charles’s side will be Queen Camilla, with the pair spending the summer at their haven in Scotland after the challenges of the past nine months.The King’s second year as sovereign was marked by the difficult double health blow of his cancer diagnosis and that of his daughter-in-law the Princess of Wales.But with the monarch and Queen consort travelling in the autumn to Australia and Samoa on their first major long-haul trip since news of his condition broke, a royal source said Charles’s health was “heading in a positive trajectory”.On Accession Day, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who delivered the sermon at the late Queen’s state funeral, has given thanks for Elizabeth II’s “life of faith and devotion” and prayers for the King’s “steadfast service”.The Rt Rev Justin Welby said: “Today we remember the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and mark the second anniversary of the accession of His Majesty King Charles III.“As we pray for the royal family today, we give thanks for Queen Elizabeth’s life of faith and devotion – and continue to pray for the King in his steadfast service to our nation.”The anniversary is a deeply personal time for the King, who became monarch when his beloved mother died in her Platinum Jubilee year after reigning for seven
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