The oath is currently reserved for British nobility, and the new move has upset anti-royalists. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who will lead the coronation ceremony on May 6 at Westminster Abbey, announced on Saturday that the traditional “Homage of Peers” – during which representatives of the nobility kneel before the king and pledge allegiance to him – would be scrapped.
The archbishop will call on “all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the other realms and the territories to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted king, defender of all”. British parliamentarians, but also Canadians since the British sovereign is their head of state, already swear allegiance to the monarch when they take office.
However, the plans to ask the public to pledge their allegiance to the king during the coronation have been branded “offensive, tone deaf and a gesture that holds the people in contempt” by an anti-monarchy group.
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