I was there when Charles returned to Buckingham Palace a king. Despite his past royal scandals, his reign is off to a shockingly good start.

• When Charles III came back as king, I was at Buckingham Palace.

• Some people cried out "long live the king" when he arrived.

• It was a sign of hope for the future of Charles' reign.

A crowd of thousands of spectators cheered as Charles III and Camilla arrived at Buckingham Palace.

Members of the public, people of all ages, gathered outside the palace gates holding out phones and cameras, desperately trying to get a glimpse of the new British monarch as he drove by. Chants of "God save the king" and "long live the king" could be heard in the crowd when Charles' motorcade arrived.

It was the day after Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth II had passed away. The start of Charles' reign as king was marked when he told the British Prime Minister that he had been reading.

Charles has waited a long time to be king.

The media has more time to look at Charles. The British public has historically viewed Charles as a flawed human being, and they would rather not be king.

There was a time that the very idea of Charles becoming king was called into question

The question of whether the public would accept Charles as their king has been debated in the UK.

The romantic scandals that Charles faced in the 90s left scars on his reputation that he has struggled to recover from.

According to Vanity Fair, Diana spoke openly about the tumultuous relationship she had with Charles during what is now considered to be one of the most controversial royal interviews of all time. The princess said that there were three of them in the marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

The New York Times reported that a poll of public opinion in the UK about whether Charles would make a good king plummeted after his divorce from Diana.

Even though Charles admitted to his indiscretions publicly and waited until 2005 to marry his mistress, the UK public never forgiven him.

In a 2016 Opinium Research poll about the Queen's successor, more than half of the 2,000 people said they would prefer William to become the king.

While Charles has experienced positive press since the 1990s, he was left on the back foot again when his relationship with Prince Harry broke down.

After Harry told Oprah Winfrey that Charles had stopped taking his calls, his popularity took a big hit.

Charles' reception at Buckingham Palace signals a changing of the tide

Even though he is the most important position within the monarchy, he is still the seventh most popular royal.

Queen Elizabeth II will be a difficult act to follow for Charles, according to a royal historian.

The public's genuine excitement for a new reign at Buckingham Palace is something that can't be ignored. I spoke to a person who believed he could be a good king because he had the same sense of duty as his mother.

There were thousands of people who came to lay flowers in honor of the Queen, and those who did so were the same people I saw cheer Charles and Camilla on as they arrived.

It wasn't just what I saw that proved that the tide is changing for Charles. After the death of the Queen, public opinion shifted on Charles, according to a new report. A majority of the people who responded to the poll said that Charles will do a good job as king.

Charles' reign is getting off to a better start than he anticipated. It is not known how far he is able to go in the eyes of the public.

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