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Throne Speech’s location and furniture will be unique to King Charles

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Now those are chairs fit for King and Queen: The monarch’s throne, left, and companion consort’s throne are bespoke to the temporary Senate building.Senate of Canada photograph, and The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia, illustration by Neena Singhal

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

May 26, 2025

Much has been made of who will be delivering the Throne Speech on May 27—King Charles III, in a rare reading by the monarch himself—but two key things will make this speech unique from the last one his mother Queen Elizabeth II gave in 1...

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