Plymouth residents are welcome to join an historic occasion tomorrow (Sunday 11 September) when our new sovereign King Charles III will be formally declared from the steps of Plymouth Guildhall.
The Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor Sue Dann, will be joined by dignitaries including the Lord Lieutenant of Devon, and the Bishop of Plymouth, for the reading of the Local Proclamation at 4pm.
Everyone is welcome to attend this historic moment, which follows centuries of tradition and dates back to days before mass communication when new sovereigns were declared in each city.
A Royal Proclamation was read out at Plymouth Guildhall following the death of George VI in 1952.
The Local Proclamation follows the Principal Proclamation which took place in London today (Saturday 10 September).
The proclamation on Sunday will end with all attending invited to proclaim ‘Long Live the King’.
In line with protocol, flags near the Guildhall will be raised to full mast in while the Local Proclamation takes place and then will be lowered again to half-mast.
They will remain at half-mast until 8am on the day after the State Funeral of The Queen.
There is a tradition that when the Monarch visits a city, the Mace is inverted in recognition of the authority of the Crown. At Sunday’s ceremony the Mace will be inverted as a similar signal of recognition that the Crown has passed from our late Sovereign to her Successor.