Desc: By Royal Proclamation: Directed by Rebekah Llewelyn. With King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II, David Cameron, Ingrid Seward. The Queen Is Dead. Long Live the King. The death of a monarch has inevitable ramifications for the line of royal succession, and following the death of the great Queen Elizabeth II, a new era of monarchy has begun under King Charles III. Though his accession is immediate, councils must convene, oaths must be sworn, and proclamations made in accordance with centuries old pomp and pageantry. Let the dynastic bureaucracy begin.