Pictured: First official photo of the King shows him attending to his red box
msn.comHis Majesty the King today shows him attending to his red box, starting as he means to go on as a working monarch in the new office at Buckingham Palace.
The King, whose late mother reputedly attended to her red box every day except Christmas Day, has been photographed carrying out his own constitutional duties, in an image taken last week.
Sitting at his desk in the 18th Century Room in Buckingham Palace, with a photograph of his parents behind him, he was already at work signing papers “Charles R”, short for Charles Rex, his official signature as King.
On the desk in front of him is a well-worn copy of a Shakespeare Folio, from which he is understood to have taken the much-quoted line from his first televised speech: “May flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest. ”The photograph was taken in a shoot lasting just a few minutes, and it is understood to have been one of the final frames after the King had finished posing and got immediately back to work.
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