Rishi Sunak To Make Pre-Election Pitch In King Charles’ Speech Today

An official known as Black Rod, a diamond-encrusted crown, and yeomen of the guard are all components of Britain’s State Opening of Parliament, an occasion where traditional customs and contemporary politics collide.

King Charles III will deliver the King’s Speech, a list of proposed laws drafted by the Conservative government in the United Kingdom and intended to win over voters before the nation’s general election next year, on Tuesday while seated atop a gilded throne.

As part of a centuries-old tradition, the king is carrying out a role that his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, fulfilled for seven decades and that other British monarchs carried out before her.