Appointment by the Ascension Council
When a monarch dies, the Ascension Council is convened as soon as possible, a body tasked with designating the heir as the new sovereign. It is chaired by the Lord President of the Council of State, in this case the newly appointed Penny Mordaunt, Leader of the Executive in the House of Commons. The ceremony consists of two parts and hundreds of people participate in it. Everything will happen this morning.
The Council will meet at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. in Spain) at Saint James Palace, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family. In the first part of the ceremony, more than a hundred people gather to confirm the ascension of the heir apparent. In attendance will include the Prime Minister, the Ministers of Economy, Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs, the Mayor of London and ambassadors from the other 14 countries whose sovereignty is the King of England.
This is followed by the second part of the Ascension Council, which in practice is the new monarch’s first Council of State (formally called Her Majesty’s Privy Council). It is made up of 719 members, most of them politicians (retired or active, both government and opposition), senior officials of the Anglican Church and prestigious jurists. In this session, the King swears to uphold the Protestant Creed, in accordance with the Constituent Act of 1701, and “shall sign an oath to maintain the security of the Church in Scotland and to adopt general measures of the Council, which will ensure the continuity of facilitating the government,” said the statement issued yesterday by the Royal House.
The proclamation is then read, first on the balcony of Saint James, then in the Tower of London, in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast (capitals of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and in the capitals of the countries that have kings of England .
Source: La Verdad
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