King Charles releases slick video to mark one year since his accession as he thanks the public for ‘all your warm welcomes and generous support’

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The King’s official social media accounts have released a stylish video to mark one year since the monarch’s accession to the British throne.

Footage included in the slickly-produced clip, which was shared to Instagram and Twitter today, showed several of Charles III and Queen Camilla’s 571 engagements across 79 regions in all four nations of the UK.

It also captured scenes from the two state visits that have occurred on His Majesty’s watch, as well as the Coronation service and this year’s garden parties.

The caption read: ‘Looking back on an extraordinary year… Thank you for all your warm welcomes and generous support.’

It comes after the King and Queen attended a special service at Crathie Kirk to commemorate the life of the late Queen Elizabeth II – and appeared moved by warm-wishes from crowds who also gathered to mark the anniversary of her death yesterday.

The King’s official social media accounts have released a stylish video to mark one year since the monarch’s accession to the British throne. Pictured, a moment in the clip showing Queen Camilla at the coronation

Footage in the clip released today included moments from the Coronation concert, some of the honours awarded by the King and the pictures from the 80 receptions held by the monarch and his wife this year.

‘571 engagements!! Wow! What a year it’s been…,’ commented one excited royal fan following the video’s release.

‘What a year it’s been! Looking forward to what the next year brings,’ echoed another delighted person in the comment section.

‘Amazing video. Happy one year anniversary to our King’, a third wrote, while a fourth added: ”Huge admiration for all your hard work.’

Charles and Camilla made the short journey by car from the nearby Balmoral Estate yesterday to the Scottish church, where successive monarchs have worshiped since Queen Victoria.

The couple spoke to crowds outside afterwards who shared their condolences and handed them bouquets and cards. The King told them that the flowers were ‘wonderful’ and joked with children about getting back to school.

Other royals were also at the service, including the Queen’s great nephews Samuel and Arthur Chatto, sons of Lady Sarah and Daniel Chatto, who also went.

And staff from Balmoral, the beloved Scottish home of the Queen where she died, also attended, walking to and from the service in the September sunshine.

‘571 engagements!! Wow! What a year it’s been…,’ commented one excited royal fan following the video’s release, while others were equally delighted by the clip (pictured)

It also captured scenes from the two state visits that have occurred on His Majesty’s watch, as well as the Coronation service and this year’s garden parties

The King looked emotional as he left Crathie Kirk having paid a moving tribute to his adored mother as the nation marked the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s death.

Crowds gathered at Buckingham Palace and Army gun salutes honouring Her late Majesty rang out across the United Kingdom.

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In an unprecedented break with tradition, signifying how touched he has been by the country’s grief at her passing but also pride in a remarkable life of public duty, His Majesty recalled his mother’s ‘long life, devoted service and all she meant to so many of us’.

William and Kate, meanwhile, travelled to Wales to grieve Queen Elizabeth’s passing and shared their own favourite pictures of the late monarch and said: ‘Today we remember the extraordinary life and legacy of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth. We all miss you. W & C’.

Initially Charles, 74, had planned only to mark his mother’s death – and his own grief-tinged accession – in ‘quiet contemplation’ at home in Scotland.

In doing so he would follow the same pattern that Queen Elizabeth chose to adopt for 70 years, marking her father King George VI’s death, at Sandringham in Norfolk, away from public gaze.

But in recent weeks he began to have a change of heart, having been so deeply touched by the global outpouring of grief after his mother died on September 8 last year.

Indeed, the Mail can reveal that the King and Queen Camilla chose last night not to return to their own home at Birkhall on the Balmoral estate as planned, but to remain at the castle itself where Elizabeth died at the age of 96, surrounded by the glory of the Scottish Highlands she adored.

A source said: ‘I think it will be of comfort to be surrounded by so much that was familiar to her.’

‘I am deeply grateful, too, for the love and support that has been shown to my wife and myself during this year as we do our utmost to be of service to you all,’ wrote King Charles in a statement released yesterday on the first anniversary of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s passing

Charles released his favourite picture of his mother, dated October 16, 1968 and taken by Cecil Beaton

Charles kisses the hand of his mother, Queen Elizabeth, after she presented him with a Royal Horticultural Society Victoria Medal of Honour in May 2009

Meanwhile, the Prince and Princess of Wales marked the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death with a small private service in Wales. William and Kate attended St Davids Cathedral in St Davids, the smallest city in Britain, in Pembrokeshire on Friday.

They also met members of the local community in the adjacent cloister, including local people who met Elizabeth II during her visits to St Davids.

St Davids has been a site of pilgrimage and worship for more than 1,400 years, since St David – the patron saint of Wales – settled there with his monastic community in the sixth century.

Since the Reformation, one of the quire stalls has been in the possession of the Crown and is known as the Sovereign’s Stall. This makes St Davids the only UK cathedral where the sovereign has a special stall in the quire among members of the chapter, the governing body of the cathedral.

King Charles speaks with people at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral, collecting bouquets and cards from schoolchildren

The royal couple leave yesterday’s memorial service also attended by other royals

Queen Camilla arrives at Crathie Parish Church, near Balmoral, with her husband, the King

Elizabeth II was the first monarch to visit St Davids Cathedral since the Reformation when she arrived at the site with her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, during a royal tour to Wales in August 1955 following her coronation.

In his message, Charles said: ‘In marking the first anniversary of Her late Majesty’s death and my Accession, we recall with great affection her long life, devoted service and all she meant to so many of us.

‘I am deeply grateful, too, for the love and support that has been shown to my wife and myself during this year as we do our utmost to be of service to you all.’

It was signed Charles R and accompanied by a portrait chosen by the King that has never been released before to the general public.

The photograph was taken at Buckingham Palace on October 16, 1968, as part of an official sitting granted to the legendary Cecil Beaton – the last he was to ever undertake with Her late Majesty before he died.

It was shown at the National Portrait Gallery the following month but has not been on public release before now.

The King apparently selected the photograph because of the ‘lovely’ – and slightly mischievous – look in the eyes of his mother, who was 42 at the time.

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