Kingdom of Scone
| Kingdom of Scone | ||||
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| Official language(s) | English | |||
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| Demonym | Sconnish | |||
| Government | Parliamentary Monarchy | |||
| - King | King Edward | |||
| - Prime Minister | Nathan Brown | |||
| Legislature | Parliament | |||
| - Type | - Unicameral | |||
| Established | 1 March 2014 | |||
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The The Kingdom of Scone is a miniature kingdom governed by a monarchy and a parliament patterned after the British Crown and the Parliament at Westminster. Complete with a king, a prime minister, parliamentarians, and other personages of noble rank and title, the Kingdom of Scone is a community dedicated to recreating, in miniature, the social, political, and ceremonial dynamic of a kingdom, with the UK as their model.
Although the Kingdom shares many characteristics of a micronation, it does not generally consider itself to be a micronation and prefers the self-descriptive term miniature kingdom.
History
The Kingdom of Scone grew out of an earlier incarnation of a miniature kingdom known as the Glennish Kingdom, of which Scone was a member.
In 2014, it became independent of the Glennish Kingdom and formed its own parliament. At the time of independence, the Lord Lieutenant over the Sconnish realm, James Richard Edward George, became James, King of the Sconnish. Since then, the Kingdom of Scone functioned as a community of citizens, government ministers, and nobles with their own parliament and various institutions of state.
Regency Period
In April 2018, the Royal Court announced that Prince Edward, the Prince Royal would be acting as Regent of Scone for an undetermined length of time while King James retired from public life and affairs of state. The Regency Period was scheduled to start on 21 May and continue indefinitely.
On 17 September 2018, after four months of regency, King James announced his intention to abdicate the throne. The instrument of abdication was signed that day and took effect on 1 October and at noon on that day, the Prince Royal ascended the throne as King Edward. Sconnish citizens generally lauded the transfer of power and celebrated the new king.
Relations with Westarctica
The Kingdom of Scone has historically had excellent diplomatic relations with Westarctica. In 2015, Grand Duke Travis became the first foreign royal invited to speak on the floor of the Parliament of Scone. His Royal Highness provided a video address to the Sconnish people praising them for their democratic practices as well as the quality and character of their monarch, King James.
Sconnish Ambassadors
Since 2015, it has been tradition for the King of Scone to appoint an ambassador to represent the government in the court of the Grand Duke.
The list of Ambassadors from Scone to Westarctica:
- Willamina, Earl of Downington (2018)
- David, Marquess of Lindenlea (2017)
- Lucy Rose, Countess of Stirlington (2016)
- Sir Joseph Kennedy (2015)
- Nathan Brown, Marquess of Walsingham (2015)