King Charles will be proclaimed as the new sovereign at the Accession Council today - here's what happens and when it is
Part one sees some Privy Counsellors , Great Officers of State, the Lord Mayor and High Sheriffs of the City of London, Realm High Commissioners, some senior civil servants and others meet.
The Lord President announces the death of the sovereign, and a proclamation is signed. Silence is then called and outlines any items of business relating to the proclamation. In part two, the new sovereign holds their first Privy Council and only Privy Counsellors attend this. King Charles will make a personal declaration and and take an oath over the security of the Church of Scotland, which ensures its self-governing status is preserved.
The Oath says: "I, [INSERT TITLE] by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of My other Realms and Territories King, Defender of the Faith, do faithfully promise and swear that I shall inviolably maintain and preserve the Settlement of the true Protestant Religion as established by the Laws made in Scotland in prosecution of the Claim of Right and particularly by an Act intituled "An Act for securing the Protestant Religion and Presbyterian...
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