‘The Commonwealth has been a constant in my own life’
His Majesty
With seven weeks to go to his coronation, the King led his family at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the first Commonwealth Day of his reign.
And His Majesty showed how he is doing things differently, issuing his message to the 56 member nations not via Buckingham Palace, as has been the tradition, but by speaking to them directly from the great pulpit.
Delivering his Commonwealth Day message as the new head of the organisation – watched by his family, who will sit in the abbey to see him crowned on 6 May – the King urged Commonwealth members to “strive together” to achieve a “global common good”.
And he also paid tribute
