Leaders approve Prince Charles to succeed queen as Commonwealth head

Prince Charles was approved as the successor to Queen Elizabeth as head of the Commonwealth at a meeting of the group's heads of government on Friday."We recognise the role of the queen in championing the Commonwealth and its peoples," the Commonwealth leaders said in a statement.There have been calls for the role to be rotated around the 53 member-states, most of which are former British territories, but in recent days the queen, 91, the British government and other leaders have backed Charles,