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On Sunday 11 September the Chairman of Epping Forest District Council, Councillor Mary Sartin read the formal Proclamation our new King for the district.
The Deputy Lieutenant of Essex, District and Town and Parish Councillors, residents and Epping Forest District Council staff gathered outside the Civic Offices in Epping to hear the Proclamation and gave 3 cheers to His Majesty the King.
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Beginning of our new King’s reign
Mrs Rosemary Padfield, Deputy Lieutenant of Essex said:
We come together this afternoon following the death of our late Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II. Our sadness at this time is shared by people across the globe as we remember with affection and gratitude the lifetime of service given by our longest reigning Monarch.
But the basis on which our monarchy is built has endured that through the centuries the Crown has passed in an unbroken line of succession. Today’s ceremony marks the formal Proclamation to the people of Epping Forest District of the beginning of our new King’s reign.
The Proclamation of the Accession
The Proclamation at Epping followed the meeting of the Accession Council on Saturday 10 September at St. James’s Palace to proclaim our new Sovereign.
Councillor Mary Sartin said:
It is my humble duty, to bring the words of the Proclamation to the residents of the District of Epping Forest.
The Proclamation of the Accession
Whereas it is pleased Almighty God to call to His mercy our late Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth the second of Blessed and Glorious Memory by whose Decease the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is solely and rightfully come to the Prince, Charles Philip Arthur George we, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, and members of the House of Commons, together with other members of her late majesty’s Privy Council and representatives of the realms and territories, Aldermen and citizens of London and others, do now hereby with one Voice and Consent of Tongue and Heart publish and proclaim that the Prince Charles Philip Arthur George is now, by the Death of our late Sovereign of happy Memory, become our only Lawful and Rightful Liege Lord, Charles the third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all his other Realms and Territories, King, Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith to whom we do acknowledge all Faith and Obedience with humble Affection, beseeching God by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless His Majesty with Long and Happy years to Reign over us, Given at St. James’s Palace this tenth day of September in the year of Our Lord two thousand and twenty-two.
God save The King.
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