The Queen’s proclamation – approved in a
meeting of the Privy Council earlier today – was read out in London
and Edinburgh today, setting out the date when Parliament will
formally return following the General Election on 7th May. [youtube
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Read at both the Royal Exchange in the City of London and Mercat…
The Australia Magna Carta Embroidery - commemorating the spread of law and order throughout the world
30th March 2015
The Australia panel of the twelve panel
Magna Carta embroidery is now completed. The latest delicately
embroidered, highly detailed piece, tells the story of how the
abiding principles of the Magna Carta influenced and remained the
basis of common law in many countries…
The Queen made a sudden return
to Buckingham Palace on Monday morning to receive the Prime
Minister David Cameron after the dissolution of Parliament. The
Queen, who is residing at Windsor Castle for the next month for
Easter Court, received Mr Cameron shortly after 11…
Elizabeth Tower fell silent on Saturday
night. A team from the Palace of Westminster Clockmakers climbed
the tower to physically move the clock’s hands from Greenwich Mean
Time to British Summer Time. Besides the clock at the Elizabeth
Tower, the team of clockmakers still had 2,000 clocks dotted around
the Palace of Westminster and other parliamentary buildings to
change in readiness for…
In this new ongoing series of articles,
we will be delving in to the world of the House of Stuart, a royal
dynasty who first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland in the
late 14th century before eventually inheriting the Kingdoms of
England and Ireland in the early 17th…
Today, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick
Clegg announced that – following the much-awaited enacting of the
necessary laws in Australia – the changes to royal succession have
finally been implemented. It’s taken four years since the Perth
Agreement in 2011 to…
Under the former law, dating back to
1701, women were succeeded by their brothers in succession even if
they were the first born. The act also allows the future monarch to
marry a Roman Catholic. The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 came
into force after being approved by all 16 Commonwealth countries
where Her Majesty is head of state. In October 2011, the
legislation was decided in principle at…
Star of Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch,
will read a poem at the re-internment of the last Plantagenet King,
Richard III, on Thursday. The re-internment service will take
place at Leicester Cathedral three years after his remains were
discovered at the site of an…
Over 500 years after his death, and
nearly three years after the discovery of his remains under a
Leicester car park, King Richard III is finally set to get the
funeral that he deserves, as his reburial procession got underway
in Leicester today. Richard III’s remains…
The Queen-in-Council issued a
proclamation setting out the dates when Parliament will be
prorogued ahead of its dissolution, heralding the beginning of the
short campaign for the British General Election on this May.
The Order read that Parliament would be prorogued (which means
suspended) “no earlier than 26th March” and “no later than 30th
March”, though in practice the…
