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King Charles III has pledged to uphold the additional duty as a new monarch of protecting the diversity of the UK and be a sovereign of all communities around the Commonwealth.
Addressing a group of faith leaders on Friday evening in the Bow Room at Buckingham Palace, where just days before his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin lay in rest before its final journey to Westminster Hall, the 73-year-old royal said he has always thought of Britain as a community of communities.
As a committed Anglican Christian, Charles said he believed in protecting the space for all faiths, building on the foundation laid by his beloved mother.
I have always thought of Britain as a community of communities, the King said in an address to around 30 faith leaders invited to the palace.
That has led me to understand that the sovereign has an additional duty less formally recognised but to be no less diligently discharged.
