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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Laura Elston

Palace announces plans for King Charles’s Accession Council

The Garter King of Arms, Sir George Bellew, reading the first public proclamation of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 (PA) (Picture: PA Wire)

The new King will be formally proclaimed monarch at a historic Accession Council in the State Apartments of St James’s Palace at 10am on Saturday.

A Principal Proclamation will be read in public for the first time by the Garter King of Arms in the open air from the balcony overlooking Friary Court at St James’s an hour later at 11am.

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