The King has held an audience with the Prime Minister at Buckingham Palace. Charles met Liz Truss on Wednesday evening, with the pair pictured shaking hands.
It came after Ms Truss faced Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament, where he insisted she will not cut spending to balance the books as economists and the financial markets continued to question her plans. Ms Truss told MPs she is “absolutely” not planning public spending reductions, but insisted taxpayers’ money will be used well.
Footage of the Buckingham Palace meeting saw Ms Truss curtsy and say: “Your Majesty.” Charles, smiling, replied: “Back again? Dear oh dear.” Ms Truss was heard to say: “It’s a great pleasure.”
The King has pledged to stand above politics now that he has succeeded his mother as monarch. In his first address to the nation in the aftermath of his mother’s passing, he said: “My life will of course change as I take up my new responsibilities.
“It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply. But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others."
However, royal sources have confessed how there is a strongly held belief that during the weekly audiences with the PM, there will be things on which they might not see eye-to-eye. Ms Truss advised the King against attending the COP27 meeting in Egypt next month, the global environmental conference he was set to attend and make a keynote speech on the climate emergency.
Separately, on Wednesday afternoon Charles also met the King and Queen of Malaysia, known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong.
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