The new King has offered his "warmest congratulations" to Scotland's newest city as he said conferring the honour on Dunfermline in Fife would "gladden my dear mother's heart".King Charles III spoke as he formally conferred city status on the former town which was one of eight communities awarded the honour as part of the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.The ceremony was the first undertaken by the King and Queen Consort after the official period of royal mourning for the Queen ended.I

The new King has offered his "warmest congratulations" to Scotland's newest city as he said conferring the honour on Dunfermline in Fife would "gladden my dear mother's heart".King Charles III spoke as he formally conferred city status on the former town which was one of eight communities awarded the honour as part of the late Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.The ceremony was the first undertaken by the King and Queen Consort after the official period of royal mourning for the Queen ended.In a ceremony in Dunfermline city chambers Charles said he had been "delighted" when the announcement of city status was made in May.He spoke of his mother's "deep love for Scotland", describing it as "one of the foundations of her life".The King highlighted the new city's "immense significance" in Scottish history as the birthplace of entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.Dunfermline is also the "burial place of kings and queens", he noted, with Robert the Bruce, who led Scotland in a