{"id":661087,"date":"2026-06-27T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661087\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:32:09","slug":"the-king-offers-his-warmest-good-wishes-as-scottish-parliament-begins-its-new-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661087\/","title":{"rendered":"The King offers his \u2018warmest good wishes\u2019 as Scottish parliament begins its new session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look back at a historic day for Scotland in 1999published at 12:25 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:25 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles, in a horse-drawn carriage in 1999\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9f4c85f2-30da-4d3b-914a-ef5cc1958b2f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA MediaImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles, as was, attended the parliament&#8217;s opening ceremony in 1999<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Let&#8217;s take take you back 27 years to reflect on the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The late Queen opened the first Scottish Parliament for 300 years on 1 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The King, or Prince Charles as he then was, attended the opening and has visited several times since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ceremony was held in the General Assembly Hall on The Mound in Edinburgh, where members of the Scottish Parliament met until the opening of the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s then First Minister Donald Dewar gave an emotional speech at the event, saying the day was a &#8220;turning point&#8221; in which democracy had been renewed in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is about more than our politics and our laws,&#8221; Dewar declared. &#8220;This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves and in quiet moments of today we might hear echoes on the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look back at a historic day for Scotland in 1999published at 12:25 BST 12:25 BST Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}