I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Gregory Coppley Defense and Foreign Affairs, a member of the Commonwealth, and King Charles is his king.

So I note whenever I come across an event by King Charles I pay

attention to the ceremony because I know it's steeped in tradition.

Recently I watch the king make a speech before Hollywood House that is a legislature in Edinburgh

of the semi-independent Scotland, always been semi-independent, but it is an integral part since

the beginning of the 18th century of the United

Kingdom. It was a passionate speech. The king looks superb in his own tartans. The

Queen was, Queen Camilla was there with him, listening, and the attendance was perfect.

They bagpiped him in and they bagpiped him out.

Gregory, what was I witnessing when the King was talking about our union? Well, basically he was talking about the voluntary union. Well, basically he's talking about the voluntary union of two sovereign countries, England

and Scotland, into the union which created the United Kingdom in the early 17 hundreds but what he was

speaking at was the 25th anniversary of the newly revived Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in Edinburgh and that was an

important situation yes it was all full of ceremony but it was full of

absolute meaning and symbolism indicating how people are

aligning themselves to go forward politically in the future.

So what we saw at that speech,

which was very amicable and very full of ceremony,

was a lot of quasi dissent or symbols of various people. of things. There were quite a number of the members of the Scottish Parliament, so called

SMP, the members of the Scottish National Parliament in the Scottish Parliament.

The Scottish National Party, National Party is very much in favor of restoring the full independence,

not just a sovereignty of Scotland, and they've failed in referenda in the past to achieve that and they are not likely to achieve it now.

The chances of that are occurring are very, very low.

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