King Charles presented his Canadian personal companion and messenger on Wednesday at Buckingham Palace a new ceremonial sword, a symbolic gesture that has additional meaning, while the country of US President Donald Trump and his increasingly energetic annexationists are ridiculed.
It is the latest step of Charles, the state head of the state to show solidarity with Canadian, as Trump repeats repeatedly demands that the Commonwealth area will be the 51st US state, say Royal Watchers.
In the past two weeks alone, Charles has met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a private audience, wearing his Canadian medals during a top-class military visit, planting a red maple leaf tree on the site of the Buckingham Palace and now he gives his personal Canadian connection and a leading protocol officer in parliament.
Charles, as the constitutional monarch, usually does not comment publicly in political issues of the day, but he can send a message through what he does and with which he meets, as the queen has often done with her outfit decisions.
In this sense, Catherine, the princess of Wales, also wore a red dress with a color similar to the RCMP tunic and a white pearl chain when she was sitting in the first row at the Commonwealth Day on Monday.
Charles gave Greg Peters, the Black Rod in the Senate of Canada, the sword in his official royal residence in London on Wednesday. Peters was accompanied by Raymonde Gagné of the Senate for diplomatic public relations.
In the royal tradition, such a sword is seen as a symbol of sovereignty. The Senate originally commissioned the sword to change the change of government from Elizabeth to Charles.
Buckingham Palace does not publicly comment on the king’s private audience.
But a palace source announced CBC News that there was a particularly warm exchange between Peters, a convinced monarchist from Prince Edward Island and the sovereign during the sword presentation and the following audience.
The king, Peters and Gagné had a 30-minute discussion about topics in Canada and internationally, according to the source of the palace.
The king also confirmed his flag message, said the source, a reference to Charles’ February declaration when he said that Canada was “a proud, resilient and compassionate country”, and the sight of the Canadian Maple-Blatt flag “triggers” a feeling of pride and admiration “.
A Gagné spokesman said the spokesman was on the way and was not available for an interview. Peters was also not available.
Peters may be the best known to the public for carrying a black Rod on the doors of the lower house to summon the MPs on behalf of the Monarch to the Senate Chamber in order to get a speech from the throne at the opening of a new session of the parliament. It is a practice that has been rooted in the parliamentary tradition of Westminster in 600 years.
In addition to its ceremonic role, Peters is also responsible for security in the Senate and in the administrative functions such as the organization of state affairs and conspiring for ceremonies.
Nathan Tidridge is a high school teacher in Waterdown, Ontario, expert in crown-indigenous history and Vice President of the Institute for Studying the Krone in Canada.
He said it was “deeply meaningful symbolism.
“The sword will be presented at this time when the country is attacked – it is remarkable,” said Tidridge in an interview with CBC News.
“What you see is the crown that reinforces Canadian sovereignty. I am worried that his government advisors simply do not know what to do with him. He can do so much to highlight Canada, he just has to be used better,” he said.
Tidridge said it was easy to relieve the sword grinder as a meaningless symbol – but symbols and ceremony are “associated with national identity” and Canada now has to appreciate it more than ever.
“We are in an existential crisis and Canadians are looking for things that they can really gather around – the crown should be one of them,” he said.
The difficult exchange on Wednesday and the audience is the second time in two weeks that the king received a Canadian delegation.
Charles met after a summit on the future of Ukraine with Trudeau and Ralph Goodale, Canada’s high -commissioner in Great Britain in Sandringham House, northeast of London.
Trudeau said the two discussed the Canadian sovereignty and the “independent future” of the country.
The day after this Trudeau meeting, Charles toured a ship with the Royal Navy with a naval uniform with its Canadian medals.
In a social media contribution, the Canadian high commission thanked the king for what it described as a “meaningful gesture”.
King Charles and other members of the royal family show some subtle but remarkable signs of the support of Canada in the middle of their economic struggle with the United States.
And at the beginning of this week, Charles planted a red maple leaf tree on the site of the Buckingham Palace.
Tree planting was as a homage to his late mother and to commemorate the queen’s Commonwealth Baldachin, a network of forest protection projects, memory-but symbolism was not lost among royal observers.
Christopher McCreery is an expert in Canadian honors and the crown. He said that these gestures were like Elizabeth’s “Broschen War”, in which she would choose a certain brooch for a specific state visit.
For his visit to the naval ship, Charles “could have worn a few different uniforms”, who do not contain his Canadian rain, he said.
“The 51st state conversation is already very annoying for every single Canadian. I am sure that it is just as annoying for the king of Canada.”
