Queen’s ‘wish’ comes true for King Charles

KING Charles has become Head of the Commonwealth, as part of an accession plan agreed just four years ago.

- Marco Giannangeli

Although the Queen took over from her father, George VI, the post is not hereditary.

But Her Majesty, then aged 92 at her last Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting in 2018, made it known that she wanted to be succeeded by her son.

Addressing the gathering, Queen Elizabeth said: “It is my sincere wish that the Commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations, and will decide that one day the Prince of Wales should carry on the important work started by my father in 1949.”

She is thought to have lobbied leaders and foreign ministers at a private gathering at Windsor Castle before they later confirmed the decision which then-prime minister Theresa May said was unanimous.