Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Some royal observers waited as King Charles sometimes seemed emotional throughout his trip to Canada last week – and a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace confirms to CBC News that the normally stoic monarch found that the throne’s speech is a particularly poignant moment.
“His Majesty was deeply moved and touched by the enthusiastic response to his visit,” said the spokesperson for the palace.
“In the speech, the standing ovation in particular was an unexpected and emotional moment for His Majesty. You can hear his voice going a bit in the last lines.”
Images show that Charles looks happy with the warm reception he received while the assembled dignitaries rose to applaud him as well as his speech.
Charles’s line on Canada “indeed” being the northern truth “strong and free” was particularly well received in the Senate room. There was no act of protest as when an Australian Aboriginal senator shouted to the king in parliament During his visit to this kingdom last year.
Look | King Charles obtains a standing ovation in parliament:
King Charles received a long series of applause on Tuesday in the Senate when he quoted the national anthem of Canada, saying that the song reminds us: “The real north east, in fact, strong and free”.
His voice flicker and his eyes seemed well when he said the last line to the parliamentarians gathered: “that you honored the deep confidence which is given to you by the Canadians, and that God bless you and guides you in all your duties.”
Charles also seemed to tear himself apart in front of the Senate building when thousands of people watched him arrive in the Royal Landau and inspect the military honor guard while the Royal Canadian Air Force Band was playing Canada. After the speech, he happily praised many spectators and there was no obvious sign of protest.
“It was the warmest of welcome and most affectionate yields in a nation and a people we love,” said Charles and Queen Camilla themselves in a joint statement published after leaving Ottawa.
Look | The royal parade of Parliament:
King Charles and Queen Camilla traveled in a horse -drawn ceremonial carriage in the parliamentary enclosure in Ottawa on Tuesday before the throne speech.
The British press took note of Charles’ unusual emotion during this trip – his 20th official visit to Canada and his first as a monarch.
“The Royals do not normally make emotion, at least they do their best to hide the feeling they have. But for any reason, King Charles seemed unable to do so at the end of a short, but very significant, a visit,” wrote the royal correspondent of ITV, Chris Ship in his coverage of the speech.
In an interview with CBC News, Justin Vovk, a royal historian of McMaster University, said that there was “more emotion than what we expect from members of the royal family”.
“I think Charles was a little surprised. The king was looking forward to going here and eager to make his presence feel in Canada, but no one really knew what kind of reaction he would receive,” said Vovk.
“Journalists, academics, royalists, we all look at and we ask: would there be lukewarm participation? There would be demonstrations? And I think that Charles saw the level of reaction of people, he finished it; it seems that he did not expect it.”
The emotion may also have been motivated by the way the visit to the issues was raised for him and the country, said VOVK.
Faced with American mockery and insults, Prime Minister Mark Carney put Charles in service, asking the Head of State to assert Canada’s sovereignty in the first speech of the throne pronounced by a monarch in almost 50 years.
It was a diplomatic balance because Charles, as a sovereign of 15 kingdoms, had to fulfill his duties as a king of Canada without torpedoing Anglo-American relations since there is a sometimes mercurial president in the oval office and the United Kingdom also faces commercial threats.
“Opening of the Parliament, reading the discourse of the throne, it is the most important constitutional roles that the sovereign plays in our political system,” said Vovk.
“He understood its politically, personally and dynastic weight,” he said.
In addition, said VOVK, for Charles, “Canada has a deep meaning for him and a deep meaning for his family”.
The king’s favorite parent, his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the queen mother, and her own mother, Queen Elizabeth, made dozens of trips to Canada and wrote and spoke with emotion of their experiences. These feelings apparently rubbed on him, said VOVK.
The queen mother, Writing to Princess Margaret in 1958said: “I have the feeling that Canada gives a boost. They are so nice and so loving and the gendarmes are so beautiful and so romantic.”
Looking back His historic tour of 1939 with King George VI On the eve of the Second World War – the first time a reigning monarch was in North America – the queen mother said: “Canada made us.”
Queen Elizabeth, who has personally witnessed the founding moments of the country’s history, including the repatriation of the Constitution, described Canada as a “domicile”.
“Charles is perfectly aware that he and his family had a presence in Canada at crucial moments. This is one of those moments,” said Vovk.
“He delivered, very deliberately, lines worthy of slogan and targets-the real north, strong and free, Canada infiltrates its bloodstream and directly in the heart. These will be sentences associated with the monarchy in Canada for a very long time,” he said.
As for whether Charles’s Battle of Cancer may have played in his emotional reaction, VOVK said it was difficult to say.
“It is impossible to speculate on what is happening behind the curtain with the sovereign,” he said.
