On Wednesday, the Queen hosted an investiture ceremony at which entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth was knighted.
Some diplomats will leave the ceremony, saying the investiture of the new legislature violates the 1984 Sino-British agreement.
There is, for example, an investiture, not a coronation and protocol is more relaxed than in most other monarchies.
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However, he said his investiture there next year would be "more than exceptional".
Not even a full stop separates the investiture of Congress with power from the qualification and limitation of those powers.
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Federalism, a divided legislature, temporary investiture of power in the executive and the procedural rules of governance all promote stasis.
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Kate Bush has received her CBE for services to music from the Queen at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle.
In 1969, she sang in the choir at the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle.
He also said there should never again be an investiture ceremony like the grand one for Prince Charles at Caernarfon Castle in 1969.
What happened today was neither of those: today was the investiture.
The investiture of the new king before a joint session of parliament later in the day will be the high point of a year of celebrations marking the end of the Napoleonic occupation in 1813.
The Veterans Agency said 27 June was chosen for National Veterans' Day as it came the day after the anniversary of the first investiture of the Victoria Cross, which happened in Hyde Park, London, in 1857.
On Tuesday, she met the new archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at Buckingham Palace, and on Thursday she presented a host of British Olympians, including track and field star Jessica Ennis, with honors during an investiture ceremony.
The proposed investiture of Caroline Kennedy as the replacement senator for Hillary Clinton has inspired a surprising degree of opposition--at least from other claimants to the throne, such as the Cuomos, and from those obstreperous parvenus, the Clintons.
Small wonder (but wondrous all the same) that the emperor Henry IV stood in the snow on Christmas day 1077 to publicly repent of his acts of oppression against the Church and so began the investiture controversy which eventually broke the back of statism and led to the rise of modern liberty.
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