{"id":135996,"date":"2025-05-27T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135996\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T13:15:13","slug":"king-charless-throne-speech-to-canadas-parliament-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135996\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles&#8217;s Throne Speech to Canada&#8217;s Parliament &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The King is the head of state of Canada &#8211; Here\u2019s what to knowpublished at 13:38 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>13:38 BST<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Charles wearing a camel coat stood in front of the British flag\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/be1edf1f-ff60-4ad7-a17b-2c4c21281b05.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like the UK, Canada is a constitutional monarchy, meaning the King doesn&#8217;t govern the country. Instead, he&#8217;s a figurehead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Formally, his role is to &#8220;unite Canadians and give a collective sense of belonging&#8221; to the country, according to the Canadian government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His official title is King of Canada. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Governor General of Canada, Mary Simon, operates as the Crown\u2019s representative in Canada. She oversees the swearing-in of a new prime minister and their cabinet, and grants \u201croyal assent\u201d to new bills, which makes them law. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the King&#8217;s limited role in Canadian affairs, he occupies a significant ceremonial place in society. New Canadians citizens, for example, pledge allegiance to the King during their swearing-in ceremony because of his &#8220;embodiment&#8221; of Canadian values. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The King is the head of state of Canada &#8211; Here\u2019s what to knowpublished at 13:38 British Summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-135996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114579985341999177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135996","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=135996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}