Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shirley.

Clearly, it's a different podcast to normal, not the episode we had planned.

But we still wanted to bring you some of the analysis reflections on

Majesty the Queen. And we look ahead to a new political era too, a new Prime Minister,

and a new King. In a moment, my history of the Queen and her Prime Ministers.

For this weekend, we'll see the proclamation of King Charles III.

It will take place in the Excession Council. It's in James' Palace.

In theory, hundreds of members of the Privy Council should be in attendance,

although they won't all fit in the room.

The former Presidents of the Privy Council will be there.

The Coen President of the Privy Council, Penny Morden,

just a few months ago, was running to be Tory leader and Prime Minister,

and will still have the solemn duty of proclaiming the new monarch.

Someone else who will be in that room is Sir David Liddington.

He was Theresa May's Deputy Prime Minister.

He was a former leader at the House of Commons. He was also a President of the Privy Council.

And I spoke to him earlier.

It existed, if you like, the sovereign's advisory body,

in the modern formal sense since mid two to times.

Obviously, this is a less formal way that the Kings of Medieval Times had a council

of the great nobles of the country to advise them.

But the Privy Council was originally the senior advisory body,

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