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In Commonwealth Realms, the Governor General or Queen reads a prepared speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming year. The speech is not written by the Queen or Governor-General, but rather the majority party in (the lower house of) parliament. In Britain, the throne speech is a part of a lavish affair known as the State Opening of Parliament, with many formalities and traditions, including the Queen's wearing of her official state crown, and is known as the Queen's Speech.
Other monarchical countries, such as The Netherlands and Japan, have similar throne speech-like ceremonies as well.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Speech from the Throne."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Advice | Instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation; Governor's message, President's message; King's message, Queen's speech; message, speech from the throne. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "SPEECH FROM THE THRONE": Parliamentary Debate on the Speech from the Throne. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SPEECH FROM THE THRONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | Troonrede. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | discours du trône. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Thronrede. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eechspay omfray ethay onethray trontal. (various references) | ||||||||||
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