The second part took place two days later, at 10am on Friday 8 February, after the Queen returned from Kenya. Meanwhile, when King Edward VII abdicated at 2 p.m. of Friday 11 December 1936, the first and second parts – declaring King George VI as the new sovereign – were held the next day at 11am. King Charles will open the second part with a personal statement about his mother’s death. In 1952, the Queen addressed the assembled councilors at St James’s Palace with the words: “On the sudden death of my dear father, I am called upon to assume the duties and responsibilities of sovereignty. “At this time of deep sorrow, it is a deep consolation to me to be sure of the sympathy which you and all my people feel for me.”
