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Charles' first address as King was interrupted by the Hamlet quote at the funeral of Princess Diana
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September 9, 2022
On Friday evening, King Charles made a poignant mention of a song performed at Princess Diana's funeral as he paid tribute to his mother, the Queen. The monarch gave an address in Buckingham Palace's Blue Drawing Room, where Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II recorded some of her Christmas messages. 'May flights of angels sing thee to the rest', King Charles III said in his address.' It was a remark on Song for Athene, which was performed at Princess Diana's funeral as her cortège departed from Westminster Abbey on September 6, 1997. The lyrics themselves took the line from Shakespeare's Hamlet.