The media : “King Charles”. Why?

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The media appear to have agreed between themselves to refer to the new King as ‘King Charles’, eg ‘Mr Sunak is on his way to the palace to be appointed Prime Minister by King Charles’.
The previous monarch was almost always referred to as simply ‘The Queen’, or ‘Her Majesty the Queen’. They would never have said ‘Mr Sunak is on his way to the palace to be appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth’.

So why the change? Why isn’t he simply ‘The King’, when his mother was just ‘The Queen’? Can any journalists on MN explain?

Because she had been the queen for decades…..in her early reign she was referred to as queen Elizabeth 2

Yeah, I think it's just while we all get used to it, so that we remember.

It's new, people need to be reminded it's KC. When the dust settles and he's been in for a while they'll settle on The King or His Majesty

I think it's just while we're in transition and getting used to a new Monarch.

It's the same as the (current) Queen being called "The Queen Consort". The addition of "consort" is not necessary on the name. QEII's mother was called "The Queen" when she was consort. I suspect this will gradually change over time.

I was watching Sky and they just said the King on TV the rolling bit of at the bottom of the screen

God it's hardly rocket science is it?

'King Charles' is a new concept & moniker, it's designed to get people used to it as opposed to 'the Queen' who everyone was familiar with

In the days after the Queen died, when they played old news clips from the early days of her reign, I noticed then that the commentators almost always referred to her as 'Queen Elizabeth/ the second' rather than just 'the Queen'

To get us used to it

My brain auto-adds Hell to the end of king, as in (fuc)king hell. Probably a good thing to keep repeating KingCharles.

QEII being referred to as the Queen was the anomaly and testament to the length of her reign.

The King will be used more as time goes on but personally I think it’s because people are still trying to get comfortable with the change to our language. You still hear presenters and other commentators refer to the Queen because it just drops so naturally into speech.

Why isn’t he simply ‘The King’

Because that's Elvis's name😃