st. giles. it s really interesting because as max is talking about, the family trying to heal potentially in making very public glue over the schisms that have arisen other the last several years, so too is the country. it is trying to also heal to come to terms. it has lost a matriarch. and i think interestingly, i have been listening to a lot of commentary from scotland, officials much better aware of the politics there, of the culture there, historians and the like, for the scottish people who will come out and line that royal mile there, as we saw yesterday, will be incredibly close to the people of the royal dynasty, to king charles and his brothers and sisters. it s sort of divided into three layers for them, i m told. first, allegiance to the queen and affection for the queen who is part of their everyday lives. she went to their farms, to their churches, to their town halls. she was in the villages. she was known up there very, very well. then comes the monarchy and t
all right. you re watching king charles and his queen consort. king charles, feeling the weight of history there, addressing parliament for the very first time as king, as the monarch here as he enters the limousine and they leave westminster hall. presumably on their way here to scotland. you were speaking act blackrod and the folks that are there now. there you have the various participants, principal parties, blackrod who you just saw the king talking to, again an ancient post. if you take each of the people we have seen and you are to draw sort of a tray upwards how they all fit together in history, they each have an individual role. it s not just dressing up for the sake of dressing up. when things are going normally and well, you don t really notice it. it just happens. but if there is constitutional crisis as we had, as you had, then these roles become important because then everybody has to defer back to that which they re supposed to do.
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Tamil Nadu, which has seen tumultuous political changes in the last five years, is set for one more round of a familiar battle in the Assembly election on April 6. Its two principal parties, the DMK and the ruling AIADMK, have stitched up pre-poll alliances and taken the lion’s share of the 234 seats to be contested. Both parties have, by and large, retained their allies of the 2019 Lok Sabha election. While the Congress, which appears to be enthused by the visits of its leader Rahul Gandhi to the State, occupies the second slot in the DMK-led alliance with 25 seats, its national-level adversary, the BJP, after aggressive posturing, has had to be content with the 20 seats allotted to it in the AIADMK-led coalition. As this is the first Assembly election after the passing of Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi, the AIADMK, in power for the last 10 years, and the DMK, both shorn of charismatic leaders, have t