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02-05-2025, 08:49 PM
Canadian Parliament to be opened by The King
The King and Queen of Canada have been asked by Prime Minister Carney to perform the State Opening of Parliament on the 26th and 27th May, a ceremony usually performed by the Governor General. Queen Elizabeth II last did this in Canada in 1977.
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The King and Queen will visit Canada from Monday 26th to Tuesday 27th May.
Their Majesties will attend The State Opening of the Parliament of Canada, in Ottawa. The King will read the King's Speech from the Canadian throne, with the Queen seated beside him. The last time this occurred with the monarch rather than the Governor General doing so was in 1977, when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip opened the Canadian Parliament for a second time.
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The move comes as arguments between Canada and America are escalating, with the Canadian government keen to stress Canada's sovereignty as an independent country with it's own head of state, The King of Canada. This visit will be the first to Canada by The King and Queen since their accession to the Canadian and Commonwealth thrones.
Quite glad of this. It revives an old tradition where the monarch would open Commonwealth realm parliaments when/if they were visiting, rather than the Governor General. It's fallen by the wayside since the 1990s though - possibly as the late Queen cut back on foreign travel as she aged.
I'd imagine we'll see The King don Canadian Armed Forces uniform and The Queen with a diadem of some kind, although we won't see them wearing crowns as they do in the British State Opening of Parliament as the crowns are legally probibited from leaving the United Kingdom as a historic legal protection.
A good move by PM Carney.
The King and Queen of Canada have been asked by Prime Minister Carney to perform the State Opening of Parliament on the 26th and 27th May, a ceremony usually performed by the Governor General. Queen Elizabeth II last did this in Canada in 1977.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Canadian-Senate-thrones.jpg/960px-Canadian-Senate-thrones.jpg?20081201205330
The King and Queen will visit Canada from Monday 26th to Tuesday 27th May.
Their Majesties will attend The State Opening of the Parliament of Canada, in Ottawa. The King will read the King's Speech from the Canadian throne, with the Queen seated beside him. The last time this occurred with the monarch rather than the Governor General doing so was in 1977, when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip opened the Canadian Parliament for a second time.
https://royalcentral.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Queen-opens-parliament.jpg
The move comes as arguments between Canada and America are escalating, with the Canadian government keen to stress Canada's sovereignty as an independent country with it's own head of state, The King of Canada. This visit will be the first to Canada by The King and Queen since their accession to the Canadian and Commonwealth thrones.
Quite glad of this. It revives an old tradition where the monarch would open Commonwealth realm parliaments when/if they were visiting, rather than the Governor General. It's fallen by the wayside since the 1990s though - possibly as the late Queen cut back on foreign travel as she aged.
I'd imagine we'll see The King don Canadian Armed Forces uniform and The Queen with a diadem of some kind, although we won't see them wearing crowns as they do in the British State Opening of Parliament as the crowns are legally probibited from leaving the United Kingdom as a historic legal protection.
A good move by PM Carney.