Oh ugh!! Climate change anyone? Charles will not be any where close to where his mom was She never participated in political gamesmanship - she did what she was born to do. Charles, on the other hand, will likely push his ideology (which he has no business doing as a monarch). Things should get interesting, that's for sure!!
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Ugh…this might be a wait & see thing. Charles has been on climate change for about 50 years now. Only time will tell.
The only loss is that chuckie will become king. Unless something happens to him in the next few days.
He's King now. He became King the moment his mother died. It's instantaneous.
Accession Council to convene for first time since 1952 to announce Charles III as King
It is expected that Charles will be officially proclaimed King on Saturday. This will happen at St James's Palace in London, in front of a ceremonial body known as the Accession Council.
This is made up of members of the Privy Council - a group of senior MPs, past and present, and peers - as well as some senior civil servants, Commonwealth high commissioners, and the Lord Mayor of London.
More than 700 people are entitled in theory to attend, but given the short notice, the actual number is likely to be far fewer. At the last Accession Council in 1952, about 200 attended.
At the meeting, the death of Queen Elizabeth will be announced by the Lord President of the Privy Council (currently Penny Mordaunt MP), and a proclamation will be read aloud.
The wording of the proclamation can change, but it has traditionally been a series of prayers and pledges, commending the previous monarch and pledging support for the new one.
This proclamation is then signed by a number of senior figures including the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Lord Chancellor.
As with all these ceremonies, there will be attention paid to what might have been altered, added or updated, as a sign of a new era.
After a fanfare of trumpeters, a public proclamation will be made declaring Charles as the new King. This will be made from a balcony above Friary Court in St James's Palace, by an official known as the Garter King of Arms.
Queen Elizabeth II crowned her son Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969
He will call: "God save the King", and for the first time since 1952, the national anthem will be played with the words "God Save the King".
Gun salutes will be fired in Hyde Park, the Tower of London and from naval ships, and the proclamation announcing Charles as the King will be read in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
It is expected that Charles will be officially proclaimed King on Saturday. This will happen at St James's Palace in London, in front of a ceremonial body known as the Accession Council.
This is made up of members of the Privy Council - a group of senior MPs, past and present, and peers - as well as some senior civil servants, Commonwealth high commissioners, and the Lord Mayor of London.
More than 700 people are entitled in theory to attend, but given the short notice, the actual number is likely to be far fewer. At the last Accession Council in 1952, about 200 attended.
At the meeting, the death of Queen Elizabeth will be announced by the Lord President of the Privy Council (currently Penny Mordaunt MP), and a proclamation will be read aloud.
The wording of the proclamation can change, but it has traditionally been a series of prayers and pledges, commending the previous monarch and pledging support for the new one.
This proclamation is then signed by a number of senior figures including the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Lord Chancellor.
As with all these ceremonies, there will be attention paid to what might have been altered, added or updated, as a sign of a new era.
The King's first declaration
The King attends a second meeting of the Accession Council, along with the Privy Council. This is not a "swearing in" at the start of a British monarch's reign, in the style of some other heads of state, such as the President of the US. Instead there is a declaration made by the new King and - in line with a tradition dating from the early 18th Century - he will make an oath to preserve the Church of Scotland.After a fanfare of trumpeters, a public proclamation will be made declaring Charles as the new King. This will be made from a balcony above Friary Court in St James's Palace, by an official known as the Garter King of Arms.
Queen Elizabeth II crowned her son Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969
He will call: "God save the King", and for the first time since 1952, the national anthem will be played with the words "God Save the King".
Gun salutes will be fired in Hyde Park, the Tower of London and from naval ships, and the proclamation announcing Charles as the King will be read in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.
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Usually the royals take on 'projects' during their lifetimes. Charles was no different and took on Climate Change.
Now that he's King, that would get set aside - or should be - because despite his personal beliefs, the whole idea behind the monarchy has always been to be 'impartial' as possible.
But yeah, wait and see if Charles follows Mummy's footsteps in this or not.
The duties and freedoms as Prince are distinctly different than that of King.
What's happening today?
Today King Charles III will travel from Balmoral to London with his wife, Camilla, now Queen Consort.More details have yet to be confirmed, but here's what we can expect will happen throughout the day:
- The new King will hold an audience with Prime Minister Liz Truss at Buckingham Palace
- Parliament will gather at noon for MPs to pay respect to the Queen
- Also at midday bells will toll in tribute to the Queen at Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and Windsor Castle
- At 1pm, gun salutes will be fired in Hyde Park and elsewhere
- The Prime Minister and other senior ministers will attend a remembrance service at St Paul's Cathedral
- The government is expected to confirm the period of national mourning
- The King is due to make his first televised address to the nation as head of state
Queen's death forces Conservative party to readjust leader announcement
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 16 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
OTTAWA — The death of the Queen has prompted the Conservative Party of Canada to rethink how it plans to announce it next leader.
The party had been planning to do so with an event in Ottawa on Saturday, but the death of the monarch now means the country will be in a period of mourning during that time.
The chair of the party’s leadership election organizing committee says in a statement the party will respect the protocols surrounding her death.
Ian Brodie says the committee “is considering an appropriate, respectful way” to announce the race results and will provide an update early Friday.
The party had already booked a space at a convention centre in downtown Ottawa, sold tickets for $150 and created a lineup of speakers for the event.
The party is also in the midst of putting more than 400,000 ballots into counting machines to get ready for Saturday’s expected announcement of the results.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 16 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
OTTAWA — The death of the Queen has prompted the Conservative Party of Canada to rethink how it plans to announce it next leader.
The party had been planning to do so with an event in Ottawa on Saturday, but the death of the monarch now means the country will be in a period of mourning during that time.
The chair of the party’s leadership election organizing committee says in a statement the party will respect the protocols surrounding her death.
Ian Brodie says the committee “is considering an appropriate, respectful way” to announce the race results and will provide an update early Friday.
The party had already booked a space at a convention centre in downtown Ottawa, sold tickets for $150 and created a lineup of speakers for the event.
The party is also in the midst of putting more than 400,000 ballots into counting machines to get ready for Saturday’s expected announcement of the results.
Queen's death forces Conservative party to readjust leader announcement
OTTAWA — The death of the Queen has prompted the Conservative Party of Canada to rethink how it plans to announce it next leader.
The Queen and Canadian currency: What's next
Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed
Author of the article:Christina Blizzard
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read • 7 Comments
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo.
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo. PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Getty Images
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?
It’s hard to imagine a $20 Canadian bill without Queen Elizabeth II’s face smiling out at us.
We’ll have to get used to it.
It’s customary, as soon as one monarch dies, for the Royal Canadian Mint to begin replacing the currency, both coins and paper money, with the new one. The banknotes won’t be replaced overnight, but gradually phased out of circulation as new ones with Charles’ image replace them.
The same will happen with stamps, although there’s already a republican move afoot to replace the monarch on both banknotes and stamps, according to a Toronto Sun article.
“The stamps and coins of an independent nation on the eve of its 150th anniversary should celebrate its own people and achievements, not those living in the palaces of a foreign nation,” the Sun quoted Wayne Adam, of Canada’s Republic Now, as saying in 2016.
The group said the country’s current prime minister is a better candidate than the Queen, who appears on the obverse of most Canadian coins. She always faces right on coins. Charles will face left, honouring a tradition that goes back to the time of Charles II. Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed. The same doesn’t happen with stamps.
The Queen only appears on the $20 bill, but in the past, Mint officials discussed dropping the monarch altogether from our money, according to one report. In 2016, Reuters reported that the Mint had pondered a plan to get rid of Charles on banknotes when the Queen died.
In the documents, central bank staff working on the redesign of the 2012 $20 bill wrote that depicting the reigning monarch was “a matter of tradition,” and suggested it could be discontinued.
“In the event the Queen dies or abdicates before the new notes are issued, a decision will need to be taken as to whether to continue this tradition or to replace the image” with some other portrait subject, a 2008 policy advice paper read.
Staff were concerned about the increased costs and delays of reworking designs if the monarch changed before the design process was done, documents obtained by Reuters under freedom of information legislation showed.
The issue of Elizabeth’s potential death came up several times at the Bank of Canada between 2007 and 2015, the documents showed.
What is shocking about that revelation is that it appears Mint officials were pushing ahead with a radical change to Canadian culture without consulting the people. Canada is still a constitutional monarchy, so removing the monarch from the currency requires a serious political conversation and a vote by the people of this country.
It could be the government will make the controversial decision not to put Charles on the currency. If so, there are deep-rooted constitutional ramifications to that decision which while need to be studied carefully and debated in Parliament.
torontosun.com
torontosun.com
Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed
Author of the article:Christina Blizzard
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 18 hours ago • 2 minute read • 7 Comments
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo.
A Canadian $20 bill with the image of Queen Elizabeth II on it is pictured in this file photo. PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Getty Images
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?
It’s hard to imagine a $20 Canadian bill without Queen Elizabeth II’s face smiling out at us.
We’ll have to get used to it.
It’s customary, as soon as one monarch dies, for the Royal Canadian Mint to begin replacing the currency, both coins and paper money, with the new one. The banknotes won’t be replaced overnight, but gradually phased out of circulation as new ones with Charles’ image replace them.
The same will happen with stamps, although there’s already a republican move afoot to replace the monarch on both banknotes and stamps, according to a Toronto Sun article.
“The stamps and coins of an independent nation on the eve of its 150th anniversary should celebrate its own people and achievements, not those living in the palaces of a foreign nation,” the Sun quoted Wayne Adam, of Canada’s Republic Now, as saying in 2016.
The group said the country’s current prime minister is a better candidate than the Queen, who appears on the obverse of most Canadian coins. She always faces right on coins. Charles will face left, honouring a tradition that goes back to the time of Charles II. Every time the monarch changes, the direction in which he or she faces on a coin is reversed. The same doesn’t happen with stamps.
The Queen only appears on the $20 bill, but in the past, Mint officials discussed dropping the monarch altogether from our money, according to one report. In 2016, Reuters reported that the Mint had pondered a plan to get rid of Charles on banknotes when the Queen died.
In the documents, central bank staff working on the redesign of the 2012 $20 bill wrote that depicting the reigning monarch was “a matter of tradition,” and suggested it could be discontinued.
“In the event the Queen dies or abdicates before the new notes are issued, a decision will need to be taken as to whether to continue this tradition or to replace the image” with some other portrait subject, a 2008 policy advice paper read.
Staff were concerned about the increased costs and delays of reworking designs if the monarch changed before the design process was done, documents obtained by Reuters under freedom of information legislation showed.
The issue of Elizabeth’s potential death came up several times at the Bank of Canada between 2007 and 2015, the documents showed.
What is shocking about that revelation is that it appears Mint officials were pushing ahead with a radical change to Canadian culture without consulting the people. Canada is still a constitutional monarchy, so removing the monarch from the currency requires a serious political conversation and a vote by the people of this country.
It could be the government will make the controversial decision not to put Charles on the currency. If so, there are deep-rooted constitutional ramifications to that decision which while need to be studied carefully and debated in Parliament.
Canada urged to drop monarchy from coins, stamps
Bloody well enough with the British Royals on our stamps and coins.
The Queen and Canadian currency: What's next
Is cash your king? And will the king be on your cash?
Looking for more time to adjust the count ?Queen's death forces Conservative party to readjust leader announcement
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Publishing date:Sep 08, 2022 • 16 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
OTTAWA — The death of the Queen has prompted the Conservative Party of Canada to rethink how it plans to announce it next leader.
The party had been planning to do so with an event in Ottawa on Saturday, but the death of the monarch now means the country will be in a period of mourning during that time.
The chair of the party’s leadership election organizing committee says in a statement the party will respect the protocols surrounding her death.
Ian Brodie says the committee “is considering an appropriate, respectful way” to announce the race results and will provide an update early Friday.
The party had already booked a space at a convention centre in downtown Ottawa, sold tickets for $150 and created a lineup of speakers for the event.
The party is also in the midst of putting more than 400,000 ballots into counting machines to get ready for Saturday’s expected announcement of the results.
Queen's death forces Conservative party to readjust leader announcement
OTTAWA — The death of the Queen has prompted the Conservative Party of Canada to rethink how it plans to announce it next leader.
There was a Trudeau stamp for a very short period but it had to be recalled because they wouldn't stick. Turns out Canadians were spitting on the wrong side.
You're right - the monarch is supposed to be politically neutral and bipartisan publically - which is what Elizabeth II did well - whereas Charles has often written "spider letters" to politicians and other high profile figures airing his views on climate change and other matters. He cannot continue to do it now that he's monarch.