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Friday's Tynwald ceremony will be 'significantly different'

The Island remains in a period of mourning

There will be a very different feel to the Tynwald sitting at St John's this week.

Clerk of Tynwald Jonathan King says while the parliamentary components will largely be the same, there won't be any of the festivities.

The Isle of Man is in a period of mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.

Yesterday (Sunday), at Government House, King Charles III was proclaimed Lord of Mann - the same thing happened, at the same time, in Jersey and Guernsey.

Mr King says the second proclamation ceremony on Tynwald Hill this Friday, which members of the public are welcome to attend, is uniquely Manx:

 

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