revealed 10 March 2024
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Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, has been appointed Lord Excessive Commissioner to the Church of Scotland’s 2024 Common Meeting, a decade after he final took the function of royal consultant on the annual gathering.
The Lord Excessive Commissioner is the Sovereign’s private consultant to the Common Meeting of the Church of Scotland and is appointed by His Majesty the King to attend proceedings on his behalf.
The Duke, who was granted the title beforehand held by his father on his 59th birthday final 12 months, will ship the opening and shutting addresses on the gathering and carry out quite a lot of official capabilities all through the week.
He was beforehand Lord Excessive Commissioner in 2014, when he assumed the title of Earl of Wessex and represented his mom, the late Queen.
He’s the primary member of the Royal Household to change into Lord Excessive Commissioner because the appointment of his nephew HRH Prince William, now Prince of Wales, in 2021.
His Majesty The King, Prince of Wales and Princess Anne, The Princess Royal and Prince Andrew had been additionally Lord Excessive Commissioners in 2000, and Her Majesty The Queen personally attended the Common Meeting in 1969 and 2002, and in addition visited the Common Meeting in 1977 as a part of her Silver Jubilee celebrations.
The Common Meeting, first held in 1560 within the first 12 months of the Scottish Reformation, is the very best courtroom of the Church of Scotland.
It can happen from Saturday, Could 18 to Thursday, Could 23 on the Common Meeting Corridor on The Mound in Edinburgh.
Moderator nominated for 2024-25 is Rev Dr Shaw James Patterson. He’ll preside over the proceedings of the Common Meeting and would be the Kirk’s ambassador at residence and overseas for the subsequent 12 months.
Particulars of the 2024 Common Meeting program are nonetheless being finalized and extra info shall be launched within the coming weeks.
