Newly-appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss was awkwardly mistaken for a 'minor royal' before she delivered an emotive reading at Queen Elizabeth's funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday.
Truss, 49, was announced as the new Prime Minister on September 6, following on from Boris Johnson's three-year reign, and just two days into her new leader role, the Queen's untimely death sent shockwaves across the world.
Given that Liz has only been in power for two weeks and given that her first two weeks have been surrounded by such global heartbreak following the death of the longest-running monarch in UK history, it's clear that she is still significantly 'unknown' to other countries given the circumstances surrounding her career milestone.
During the Queen's funeral procession, Liz stood on the altar to deliver a powerful passage from the bible about moving on to the next life with grace as she paid tribute to the late Queen.
However, one TV channel in Australia mistook the British Prime Minister as a 'minor royal' when she was spotted entering Westminster Abbey before taking to the stand for the emotive reading.
Channel 9 presenters Peter Overton and Tracy Grimshaw were left confused when Ms Truss stepped up to give a reading from a letter of St Paul to the Romans.
“Who’s this?” Grimshaw asked, with her co-star adding: “Hard to identify. Maybe minor royals? Members of the - I can’t identify them at this point.”
"We can’t split everyone up, unfortunately. They could well be royal dignitaries, it’s hard to see.”
However after a swift confirmation from their producer, the Aussie presenters set the record straight to the hundreds of thousands of viewers who were watching across Australia.
“I think we are now getting to the pointy end, as they say. I’m just told that was Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, in the distance that we could see," Grimshaw confirmed.
A reading of The Second Lesson was delivered by Prime Minister Truss at Westminster Abbey.
The Queen's State Funeral started at 11am, conducted by the Dean of Westminster. Around midday, the national anthem and a lament played by the Queen's piper brought the service to an end.
Senior royals including Charles' sons the Prince of Wales and Duke of Sussex, as well as siblings Princess Royal, Duke of York, marched behind his mother while being moved from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey.
Around 2,000 world leaders are in attendance at the service after which a two-minute silence will be held. The national anthem was then played to signal the closing of the service.
Following this morning's service at Westminster Abbey, the Queen will then be transferred to Windsor Castle where the late monarch will be laid to rest alongside her beloved husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, in King George VI's chapel.
