NATIONAL Day celebrations will likely be postponed for an additional yr after the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II this week, Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo introduced reside on TV.
As an alternative, the screens on-stage at Casemates Sq. will stream the September 10 First Proclamation of King Charles III in entrance of the Ascension Council.
The Casemates stage will stay for the 73-year-old’s televised public proclamation as Queen Elizabeth’s son in Sandwell on September 11.
Picardo stated Friday was ‘the eve of our saddest Nationwide Day’ in his televised broadcast, which he tweeted in its entirety.
It got here because the Royal Gibraltar Regiment fired a 96-gun salute on Friday.
The native chief spoke of the ‘cloud of sorrow’ over the Rock on the loss of life of the monarch and continued to eulogise Queen Elizabeth II in a prolonged handle.
“In reflecting for Gibraltar on Queen Elizabeth’s lifetime of service, I feel we should replicate on the truth that She was the queen of all our constitutions to this point,” the Chief Minister stated.
“As our Queen, she was the top of our Government and we have been expressly one in every of Her dominions.”
He urged the general public ‘to benefit from the day tomorrow with your loved ones and associates, tinged with disappointment as it will likely be, commemorating the nice reminiscence of our former sovereign’.
Flags will fly at full-mast on Sunday and return to half-mast on Monday for the Queen’s funeral.
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