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2023-06-12 10:44:08

Of Enrica Roddolo

In a week’s time, Charles’ first King’s Birthday Party in London, which is then expected in Scotland on 5 July for a replica of the coronation, with the flavor of a warning

Queen Camilla beaming with actress Judie Denchwas the protagonist of the first literary festival of its foundation for reading: il Queen’s Reading Room Literary Festival. And project of his own born in the midst of the pandemic, with the idea of ​​the then Duchess of Cornwall, of an online reading club. And now the first major project that debutta with Camilla as godmother and mentor. And next to Camilla, in the former Tudor palace at Hampton Court was King Charles III who at the weekend will appear for the first time on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to greet the King’s Birthday, con il Trooping the Colour (the parade of flags). After 70 years of the Queen’s Birthday – which lasted the very long reign of Elizabeth II’s records – this year Buckingham Palace will celebrate the first Birthday of a King.

And it will be impossible not to remember the last view from that same balcony of Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee exactly 1 year ago. Then the 5 July Scotland is waiting for Charles and Camilla but also William and Kate, new princes of Wales, in Edinburgh along the Royal Mile for a sort of second coronation. Scotland to welcome new King and Queen with series of events to celebrate coronation, promises First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf -. With representatives of different communities who will take part in these events. A procession, a Royal procession and a 21-gun Thanksgiving Mass from Edinburgh Castle.

At the center of this “second” coronation are the regalia of Scotland, the Scottish Crown Jewels already used for the coronation of Queen Mary in 1543. Therein lies the point, while the ceremony will be a tribute from the new King, it will also be a reminder of Scotland’s independent past, from the time before 1707. It cannot be forgotten that when Elizabeth II was crowned in June 1953 in Scotland on petitioned (denied) for Elizabeth to be known as Elizabeth I in the Highlands as Scotland was not part of the kingdom at the time of Elizabeth I. And several post office boxes with the EIIR cyphre were vandalised. Furthermore, it cannot be forgotten that Humza Yousaf, who succeeded Nicola Sturgeon, as First Minister of Scotland has never made a secret of his feelings towards the Crown.

Last May 6 at Westminster Abbey, at the coronation of King Charles III, an unusual scenario materialized for the first time: the three First Ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all of republican faith.

The new leader of the Scottish National Party, Humza Yousaf who promised that with him in charge, Scotland would become a republic within five years of gaining independence. And if we add to this that the First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford of the Welsh Labor Party is a republican. And that by virtue of the Windsor Agreement to rewrite the post-Brexit protocol with Northern Ireland, with the reinstatement of the Stormont parliament… Michelle O’Neill, of Sinn Fein, first minister-designate, explains to Courier David Torrance, researcher at the University of Westminster and author of a detailed report for the House of Commons Library in Westminster on the coronation.

It is no coincidence that King Charles III, aware of the risks ahead of him, immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth II embarked on what was christened Operation Spring Tide. In other words a visit from Edinburgh to Belfast via Wales. Speaking of Scotland, the former First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, had even invited Edinburgh to deny the loan of the legendary Stone of Scone (on which King Alexander III of Scotland was crowned in 149 and brought to London by Edward I). Stone returned in time for the coronation at Westminster Abbey. The rules governing the management of the Stone of Scone were written in 1996 with a Royal Warrant which commits the Scots to preserve but also to lend the stone for the coronation.

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