Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who crowned King Charles and married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has resigned amid criticism of how he handled a probe into "the most prolific serial abuser" linked to the Church of England.

King Charles has held talks with the Archbishop of Canterbury ahead of his resignation over the John Smyth sex abuse scandal. The King exchanged private words with Archbishop Justin Welby through intermediaries this morning.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the most senior Church of England bishop, spiritual leader of Anglicans, and a friend of King Charles III, resigned Tuesday over his handling of a sex abuse scandal. The Most Reverend Justin Welby had faced growing pressure to step down after the publication last week of a damning report on the cover-up by the church of a sadist who subjected private schoolboys attending evangelical Christian holiday camps in the 1970s and ’80s to horrendous physical,