{"id":849589,"date":"2026-03-25T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/849589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:34:17","slug":"dame-sarah-mullally-being-installed-as-archbishop-with-william-and-catherine-among-guests-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/849589\/","title":{"rendered":"Dame Sarah Mullally being installed as archbishop with William and Catherine among guests – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staff and pupils at local school excited for service: ‘It’s a really big thing’published at 14:05 GMT<\/p>\n

14:05 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Katie Williams<\/strong>
Reporting from Canterbury<\/p>\n

A little earlier, I visited The Archbishop\u2019s School which \u201csits in the shadow of the cathedral\u201d, to quote the headteacher David Elliott. I spoke to staff and some pupils.<\/p>\n

Three girls in Year 9 tell me they’ve written a prayer on a prayer card Sarah Mullally handed out on her six-day pilgrimage from London to Canterbury.<\/p>\n

The words of the prayer focus on “what we thought the archbishop would need”, one says, adding: “It was to do with shepherding and leading people”. They were asked to write the prayer before the identity of the new archbishop was announced.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a really big thing,” says school chaplain Reverend Dawn Watson. “For a chunk of my lifetime, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to be ordained\u2026 I think today is a huge, huge day for the Church and also for women in the Church\u2026 and for women in general.”<\/p>\n

I ask the Year 9 students what Mullally was like when they met her. They say she’s “amazing”, \u201creally humble”, “sweet”, and that she “considers other people” and spoke lots about her family.<\/p>\n

The pupils will be at today\u2019s service – one is doing a reading. “I\u2019m excited and nervous because it\u2019s in front of really important people,” she says.<\/p>\n

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Reverend Dawn Watson and headteacher David Elliott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff and pupils at local school excited for service: ‘It’s a really big thing’published at 14:05 GMT 14:05…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-849589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116290549869841802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849589","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=849589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}