His Majesty King Charles III

We all enjoy theatre, so we'll still know plenty of queens.

Good luck to King Charles III. It is a big role to take on as a pensioner.

Charles is King now. He became King at the moment the Queen died.

I was very pleased when the announcement referred to "The King and the Queen Consort". After years of the press speculating as to whether Camilla would be Queen Consort or only Princess Consort or suchlike it is such a relief that she is definitely getting to be Queen.

Unfortunately there are those who would condemn a couple of mismatched people to a miserable co-existence because of antiquated notions of dogma, duty, or other excuse. The CoE owes its very existence to divorce. Charles has seemed so much happier and relaxed since he and Camilla made it official. Good luck to both of them. It must be awful to have trained for a job all your life that requires the death of a beloved parent for you to take over the role.

As a Cornish man I'm interested to know if William will now become Duke of Cornwall?

It’d be a real shock if William didn’t become POW!

The open question is whether Edward gets made Duke of Edinburgh - it’s what Prince Philip originally wanted but Charles is apparently not that keen? Although the gossip on that could obviously be totally wrong.

I think Edward should have a royal Dukedom. He and Sophie will have to do a lot more work than maybe originally planned for them (no Andrew, no Harry and Meghan, the Kents and Gloucesters are really very elderly now).

He's taken over the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme in recent years, so it would fit well with that.

I think it's in danger of being slimmed to the point they'll run out! The Cambridge children are too little to be working royals yet, and he was meant to have Harry and Meghan.

Even if he, Camilla and Anne (although she has a full timetable already) do more, they're not going to be able to cover everything. There's still a few of the Queen's cousins doing engagements too, but they're very elderly now so there'll be a natural slimming down there.

That's why I think Edward and Sophie will end up doing more, not less.

(I thought the rough plan even when slimmed was Monarch + spouse, monarch's siblings, monarch's children plus whoever of the older generation was still around. So for example Edward, Harry and Charlotte would all be working royals, but their children wouldn't.)

Just watching King Charles shaking hands with people outside Buckingham Palace has just reminded me of when my own mother died in 2002. That day my dad and I were a bit lost to be honest and it happened to be the same day that Prince Charles was visiting our town in his role as Duke of Cornwall. So we decided to go up onto The Parade where he was due to open a new town museum. He decided to do a walkabout and we both got the chance to meet him and shake his hand. So seeing the footage just now brought back that memory.

I believe the plan was Monarch, Children and grandchildren. The spin is always that this is about reducing costs, and the gossip that Charles’ sibling rivalry contributed to the desire to phase out Andrew, Edward, Anne and their kids.

Not necessarily even spouses of the children and grandchildren involved - (well, apart from The Princess of Wales) - which is where some of the Meghan trouble originated, since she was suddenly touted by some as an modernising force that would save the Royals from irrelevancy (and keen to play that part and forge a role as a Royal - even I can concede that her California-keenness is irritating!). That just did not fit with the plan, and must have been taken as an insult.

Harry leaving is a problem for them. Andrew stepping back before time is also a problem. People haven’t adjusted their expectations of how much work a slimmed-down monarchy can feasibly do, and how the rest of the family is going to generate their income when they are not publicly financed, and what that means in terms of commercial activity with Royal connections (which is absolutely inevitable - the idea that Royals shouldn’t use their connection to the Crown for commercial benefit is really very modern, it was always thus and human nature does not change). It’s clear that Edward and Sophie are very keen to do more and have a higher profile public role. The question is will Charles face up to the fact that there is too much ‘work’ for a smaller group?

And still Duke of Cambridge. And Duke of Rothesay.

Must be one hell of a big business card.