Queen Elizabeth: No public event for anniversary of late monarch's death

There will be no official public event to mark the first anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, a royal spokesman has said.

King Charles is to spend 8 September "quietly and privately". The day also marks his own accession to the throne.

Nor are there any plans for a private gathering of the Royal Family on the anniversary of the late Queen's death.

Senior royals will be in Balmoral in Aberdeenshire over the summer, the place where the Queen died last year.

Queen Elizabeth II's death, at the age of 96, followed the longest reign of any British monarch.

The King is following his mother's tradition - the late monarch spent the anniversaries of her father's death, and the start of her reign, in what used to be termed "private reflection" - with no planned official events.

If there are other commemorative events in the week of the anniversary, King Charles and Queen Camilla are not expected to attend.

The King and senior members of the Royal Family have also followed in the late Queen's tradition of spending the summer in Scotland, with King Charles having a home, Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate, as well as Balmoral Castle.

It is expected that family members will be there at various times over the summer, but a Buckingham Palace spokesman has suggested they will not hold any formal, private gathering to mark the death of Queen Elizabeth.

The Cabinet Office has said a national memorial to the late Queen will be commissioned "in due course".

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