The UK’s King Charles III was formally declared sovereign on Sunday in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Wellwishers gathered as the accession proclamations were read out across the UK’s four nations, but the ceremony was disrupted in Scotland, where “God Save the King” was met with booing from hecklers and an anti-monarchy protester was arrested for breaching the peace.
Sinn Féin, an Irish republican party aiming to form a united Ireland, which became the biggest political party in Stormont in the last election, stayed away from the ceremony in Northern Ireland.
Party leader Mary Lou McDonald said Sinn Féin would take part in other events to pay respect to the late Queen, but not the accession proclamation ceremonies that “are intended for those whose political allegiance is to the British Crown.”…