On Saturday, it will be held immediately after the first part, but historically, this has not always been the case. When King George VI died in the early hours of Wednesday 6 February 1952, the first part, declaring his daughter Elizabeth the new Queen, was held at 5pm that day. The second part took place two days later, at 10am on Friday 8 February, after Queen Elizabeth returned from Kenya. When King Edward VII abdicated at 2 p.m. Everyone present will bow to the King before he opens the second part with a personal statement about his mother’s death. In 1952, when Queen Elizabeth performed this duty, she addressed the assembled councilors at St. James’s Palace with the words: “With the sudden death of my dear father, I am called upon to assume the duties and responsibility of rulership. “At this time of deep sorrow, it is a deep consolation to me to be sure of the sympathy which you and all my people feel for me.”
