The plane carrying the King and Queen was watched by more than 150,000 people on a flight tracking website as it landed. According to FlightRadar24, 153,000 users were tracking flight KRH20R as it touched down at RAF Northolt in west London at 1:35pm.
The Embraer Legacy 600 jet spent an hour and five minutes in the air, having left Aberdeen at 12:30pm. A group of more than 100 people assembled to watch him land in England for the first time as king.
The group is now waiting at the gates of the RAF base for the monarch. Two police helicopters are also circling the base.
The grief-stricken King was glimpsed for the first time since his accession to the throne as he departed Birkhall, his private home on the Balmoral estate, by car at around 11.15am on Friday. With Camilla, his new Queen Consort, in the front passenger seat, Charles sat in the back, dressed in his mourning clothes of a black suit and tie, looking sombre as he headed to Aberdeen Airport.
Camilla stared straight ahead as they were driven from the Scottish residence, where they had rushed to be at the Queen’s bedside when she fell gravely ill. The couple stayed overnight at Balmoral, where Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully aged 96 on Thursday afternoon.
Charles has already turned his hand to his duties as monarch despite his grief. He gave the order that a period of “Royal Mourning” for the Queen will be observed from now until seven days after her funeral.
Royal Mourning will be observed by members of the royal family, royal household staff and representatives of the royal Household on official duties, together with troops committed to ceremonial duties. Royal salutes will be fired in London on Friday at 1pm in Hyde Park by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, and at the Tower of London by the Honourable Artillery Company, with one round being fired for each year of the Queen’s life.
Flags at royal residences were at half-mast on Thursday and will remain half-masted until 8am on the morning after the final day of royal mourning. The King is expected to address the nation on television on Friday evening, and hold his first audience with Prime Minister Liz Truss.
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