{"id":166565,"date":"2026-05-13T05:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166565"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:49:05","slug":"king-charles-iii-delivers-the-kings-speech-at-the-state-opening-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/king-charles-iii-delivers-the-kings-speech-at-the-state-opening-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III delivers the \u201cKing\u2019s Speech\u201d at the State Opening of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>King Charles III<\/strong> once again becomes a notorious being in the British Monarch as Britain\u2019s annual State Opening of Parliament returned to the spotlight this week. The major event, which features the <strong><em>\u201cKing\u2019s Speech,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> is a ceremony y that formally opens the new parliamentary year and outlines the government\u2019s legislative agenda<\/p>\n<p>The Speech is delivered by King Charles III himself from the throne in the House of Lords, written by the government rather than the Monarch of the United Kingdom<strong>. The message sets out proposed laws and policy priorities for the coming session<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The King and Queen have attended the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcdc Today is the third occasion in which His Majesty has opened Parliament as Sovereign. During State Opening, The King reads a speech written by His Majesty&#39;s Government, which sets\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TeNlk14WyK\">pic.twitter.com\/TeNlk14WyK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoyalFamily\/status\/2054520813336862733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 13, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although King Charles III reads the speech aloud, he must<strong> remain politically neutral<\/strong> and cannot express personal views on government policies. This year\u2019s ceremony is coming in a tense political moment with Prime Minister Keir Starmer facing pressure after a significant election loss earlier in May.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>\u201cKing\u2019s Speech\u201d<\/em> has become a <strong>tradition<\/strong> that dates back centuries, evolving into its modern form after Parliament established authority over the monarchy in the 17th century. The King was also accompanied by Queen Camilla Parker and a royal procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III once again becomes a notorious being in the British Monarch as Britain\u2019s annual State Opening of Parliament returned to the spotlight this week. The major event, which features the \u201cKing\u2019s Speech,\u201d is a ceremony y that formally opens the new parliamentary year and outlines the government\u2019s legislative agenda The Speech is delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":166566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,1795],"tags":[1881],"tmauthors":[3735],"class_list":{"0":"post-166565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-royal-family","10":"tag-king-charles-iii"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166569,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166565\/revisions\/166569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166565"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}