Video: Mayor proclaims new King to people of Wrexham

The Mayor of Wrexham, Councillor Brian Cameron, has issued a proclamation from the balcony of the Guildhall this afternoon.

A proclamation was be made in London yesterday as part of an “accession council” held at St James’s Palace, with the news then ‘cascaded’ across the UK.

Today’s ceremony was part of that process, that saw the Chief Executive Ian Bancroft and the Mayor travel to Mold to receive the news from the High Sheriff of Clwyd and the Lord Lieutenant.

The civic party then returned to Wrexham to issue the proclamation to the people of Wrexham, we are told the Mayor was acting ‘on behalf of the Crown’ in this role.

After the proclamation, which was made bilingually, there was a repetition of ‘God Save The King’ from the crowd – and at the very end of both readings, “Three cheers for the King” with the crowd responding.

The video of the short event is below:

The proclamation as read out by the Mayor is below:

Whereas it has 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 of 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 twenty thousand and twenty-two.

GOD SAVE THE KING

Above is a view of part of the crowd from the balcony taken around 15 minutes before the proclamation was made, along with the image below seconds before: