
The End of an Era
The News Agents
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What Is the Point of the Accession Council?
The accession council formalizes the fact that there is a new king and a new government. It doesn't necessarily require it, because as soon as the queen breathes a last he does become king. There is no interim period. Just one other thing to think about. There is going to be a state funeral. Does president she get invited to the funeral? Given relations with china, what happens to russia? Can you imagine the protocol nightmare of trying to organize who should come, who doesn't come, who sits where? And that is something that presumably they are working on very actively at the moment.
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