King Charles III would have taken on many more responsibilities and worked more days than his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in his first year at the helm of the United Kingdom, which ends on Friday.
In total, the new king is said to have attended 550 appointments in his first year of reign, spread over 161 working days, which included visits to the four nations of the United Kingdom, The Independent reported on Wednesday.
On Friday, the British nation will mark the first anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, 2022, and conclude the monarch’s first-ever year at the helm of the country.
But according to the PA news agency, compiled from official reports on the royal family’s activities, the 70-year-old may have done more work in his first year on the throne than his mother, who became queen when she was 25 in 1952, British media reported.
The latter, who had worked 157 days, opted for a lighter workload and completed a total of 400 commitments in her first year.
However, the new king would not have beaten his grandfather, King George VI, who put in 183 days of work in his first year.
Charles III is also said to have held 26 meetings with British prime ministers – five with Liz Truss and 21 with Rishi Sunak – while his mother had 27 meetings with Winston Churchill. His grandfather only took part in twelve of his own games.
Unlike his mother and grandfather, who would have remained in the United Kingdom for the first year of their accession to the throne – with the exception of the Queen, who was in Kenya when she learned of her father’s death – Charles III. made two visits to Germany in March and to Romania in June, The Independent continued.
In the first year of the queen’s death, Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton are expected to deliver a message to the nation, while the king will spend the day “quietly and privately” at Balmoral in Scotland, the site of her final death, the British concluded Media.