Royal rituals for democratic stability


Whatever challenges may emerge in the next five years, we pray the wisdom of our new King and his brother Rulers will successfully guide our nation.

IN the United Kingdom, the King’s Speech at the state opening of Parliament is the most ostentatious visualisation of the relationship between the constitutional monarch and the elected government of the day.

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