The Papers: 'The buck stops here!' and 'Prickly heat!'
News that King Charles will not live at Buckingham Palace, and that the UK is sweating through record heat, leads Friday's papers.
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'The buck stops here!' and 'Prickly heat!'Published3 minutes agoImage caption, Several papers lead with King Charles III and Queen Camilla's decision to not live at Buckingham Palace, instead opting to remain at Clarence House. "The buck stops here!" is the Daily Star's take, adding "no monarch to live at Palace". Image caption, "King will never live at the Palace" is the Daily Telegraph's lead, saying it is "the first change to the monarch's residence in nearly 200 years". Additionally, "Royal accounts show sovereign paid £30m in tax since ascending to throne" in 2022, the paper reports. It says he joined the Prince of Wales who revealed his tax bill was "£7.76m in the last financial year".Image caption, "Big bucks for an empty home" says the Daily Mirror.
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