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The King's Lame Speech Should Really Be Celebrated
Charles III’s first King’s Speech underlines the extraordinary stability of the British political system.
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The world may be falling apart but Tuesday’s King’s Speech, the first of Charles III’s reign, proceeded like well-oiled clockwork.
The Yeomen of the Guard searched the cellars of the Palace of Westminster in case there were any 1605 Gunpowder plotters still lurking. (Given the Tory Party’s dysfunction, these were probably the only plotters not in the building.) The junior whip, Jo Churchill, was dispatched to Buckingham Palace to act as a hostage until the king was safely back home.