BBC Breakfast interrupted as hosts make King Charles announcement

BBC Breakfast took an emotional turn on Sunday morning following an announcement about King Charles.

Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden on BBC Breakfast (Image: BBC)

BBC Breakfast interrupted its usual proceedings on Sunday to share a clip from King Charles. Before Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden spoke with their guests, they played a brief video where the King shared a heartfelt message.

Roger began, “Now this week marks 50 years since King Charles, who then, of course, was the Prince of Wales, launched an initiative with one overarching goal, to help vulnerable young people to get the resources that they need to thrive.”

Rachel continued, “The Prince’s Trust, which is now, of course, known as the King’s Trust, has since supported more than 1.3 million young people to develop essential life skills and access job opportunities. And to mark this success, the King has spoken about what the trust means to him.”

King Charles then appeared in a clip where he said, “In the beginning, I hoped that by supporting young people to develop their latent skills and to find work or training.

“The trust would perhaps be able to help change some individuals’ lives for the better. As you can perhaps imagine, I am so very pleased and proud that the trust work continues to go from strength to strength, having, in that time, helped over 1.3 million young people grow their confidence, continue in education, secure sustainable jobs, and over 92,000 young people in the UK alone having been supported to start a business, thus enabling them all to build brighter futures.”

BBC Breakfast was interrupted to show a clip from King Charles (Image: BBC)

King Charles sent viewers a message (Image: BBC)

“King Charles,” Roger said as the clip concluded, before introducing their guests, including Matt Wane, who had been helped and supported by the trust after spotting a post on Instagram.

He went on to share the heartbreaking news that he had also lost his father.

Rachel pointed out, “And, in fact, Matt, in your case, it was also a post on Instagram. I think that led you to the King’s Trust.”

“Yeah, absolutely. I lost my dad in 2024, and it was quite a difficult time,” Matt shared before adding, “And I didn’t really have much purpose, kind of going on in life.

“And I saw an advert on Instagram, and I thought, ‘I might as well just have a go at this’. And it’s one of the best things that I signed up to.”

Matt Wane spoke about how the King’s Trust helped him after he lost his dad (Image: BBC)

“You’ve been your dad’s carer, hadn’t you?” Roger asked, to which Matt replied, “Yeah, so my mum supported my dad, and I cared with her for him.”

“And you were feeling, I think, during that period of time, understandably, pretty isolated,” Rachel interjected. “So the idea of then stepping out into the world is quite a big move.”

Matt went on to explain, “Yeah, you kind of lose yourself, lose your sense of purpose after a period of time like that. So it was a really great opportunity.”

When asked what job he was doing after the trust’s help, Matt said, “DJ’ing.”