Yeomen of the guard, a diamondstudded crown and an official known as Black Rod they're all ingredients of Britain's State Opening of Parliament, an event where centuriesold ritual meets modernday politics.On Tuesday, King Charles III will sit on a gilded throne and read...
LONDON — Yeomen of the guard, a diamond-studded crown and an official known as Black Rod — they're all ingredients of Britain’s State Opening of Parliament, an event where centuries-old ritual meets modern-day politics.
Britain holds elections every four or five years, with the government’s term divided into Parliament sessions that are roughly a year long. Each begins with a grand State Opening ceremony, where politicians and the monarch symbolically enact the tussle between Crown and Parliament that produced Britain’s constitutional monarchy.
Ever since King Charles I tried to arrest lawmakers in 1642 - and ended up deposed, tried and beheaded -- the monarch has been barred from entering the House of Commons. The opening ceremony therefore takes place in the House of Lords, Parliament’s unelected upper chamber. For the first time since 1951, Parliament is being opened with a King’s Speech rather than a Queen’s Speech. Elizabeth delivered 67 speeches during her 70-year reign, missing the occasion twice when she was pregnant and when she delegated Charles to read the one in May 2022 on her behalf.
This is almost certainly the last session of Parliament before a general election next year, and the speech will give clues to how the Conservatives plan to campaign. There is likely to be legislation to enact Sunak’s plan to stop new generations from smoking by gradually raising the minimum age for buying tobacco.
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