{"id":1023129,"date":"2026-06-13T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1023129\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:12:27","slug":"king-and-queen-to-attend-ceremony-to-open-new-scottish-parliament-term-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1023129\/","title":{"rendered":"King and Queen to attend ceremony to open new Scottish Parliament term \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The King and Queen will join MSPs at a \u201cmilestone\u201d event to mark the opening of the new Scottish Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Charles will give an address to formally open the Parliament term following May\u2019s Holyrood election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The event on Saturday June 27 will also include performances from the National Theatre of Scotland and the National Youth Choir of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Scotland\u2019s national poet, Makar Padraig MacAoidh, will perform a specially-commissioned work called Let This Hall Be Full Of Noises, which will be read by him\u00a0in Gaelic with an English translation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/outlander-fans-raise-10115-for-culloden-in-honour-of-actor-sam-heughan-OBBUZHUUJRN73MB3ZETAWUTLEM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Outlander fans raise &#xA3;10,115 for Culloden in honour of actor Sam Heughan\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BX5ZBPHIIRL7BLS73K36YDHPLU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/uk\/bulgarian-man-guilty-of-assaulting-12-year-old-girl-ZSL6VJ4S7FJRTLITXRB5FURSYE\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bulgarian man guilty of assaulting 12-year-old girl\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FC35MRCHCVPSRPQXA2MFSC6EMU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The King and Queen will meet &#x2018;local heroes&#x2019; at a reception held after the opening ceremony.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DCAADVKBIBPPXG2GSFDD5HEZSY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"625\"\/>The King and Queen will meet \u2018local heroes\u2019 at a reception held after the opening ceremony. (Andrew Milligan\/PA) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the ceremony, Charles and Camilla will meet some of the \u201clocal heroes\u201d who have been chosen by MSPs to represent constituencies and regions across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking ahead of the ceremony, Presiding Officer Kenneth Gibson\u00a0said: \u201cThe start of a new Parliament is all about optimism, hope and a renewal of what the Parliament means to the people of Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The King and Queen were both at a special event at Holyrood in 2024 to mark the Parliament\u2019s 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mr Gibson added: \u201cTheir Majesties\u2019 support for this institution has been steadfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to have the King and the Queen join us at the start of that journey alongside people from across Scotland, who are at the centre of our plans to commemorate this milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI look forward to celebrating the very best of Scotland, reflecting on our heritage, acknowledging our traditions, but most importantly with a focus on our future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King and Queen will join MSPs at a \u201cmilestone\u201d event to mark the opening of the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1023130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,5117,7730,1102,4884,15277,285,4575,5105,712,17038,16,15],"class_list":["post-1023129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-camilla","tag-charles","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-king","tag-politics","tag-queen","tag-royal","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-parliament","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116740381073439754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}