Sentence examples for monarch's speech from inspiring English sources

Geoffrey Rush, who plays the monarch's speech therapist, and Helena Bonham Carter, as Queen Elizabeth, are nominated in the Bafta supporting actor and actress categories.

The proposal is followed by a speech from the prime minister and a response from the leader of the opposition before a normally symbolic vote to pass the monarch's speech.

And the family was no longer required to jump to attention during the monarch's Christmas speech either.

But the British monarch's annual speech from the throne makes an explicit reference to the limits of the sovereign's power.

The British monarch's Christmas speech was originally to be a one-off event, but as historian David Cannadine explains, it has become one of the most important fixtures in the royal year.

Written by the government and delivered by the reigning monarch, the Queen's Speech sets out the legislative agenda and is the centrepiece of the state opening of Parliament.

As the stuttering monarch in "The King's Speech," Mr. Firth has earned nearly all the major kudos from critics and guilds thus far.

On May 25th the monarch delivered the Queen's Speech, amid the traditional pageantry of crowns and coaches, cavalrymen in dazzling cuirasses, Black Rod, trumpeters and Ken Clarke, the justice secretary and Lord Chancellor, wearing an absurd wig.

The British actor's portrayal of a stuttering monarch in The King's Speech is generating the hottest buzz in tinseltown, especially as Firth's strong performance last year in A Single Man lost out to Bridges.

The 50-year-old is up for the best actor award for his role as stammering monarch George VI in The King's Speech.

Thus the acts of state done in the name of the Crown, such as Crown Appointments, even if personally performed by the Monarch, such as the Queen's Speech and the State Opening of Parliament, depend upon decisions made elsewhere: Legislative power is exercised by the Queen-in-Parliament, by and with the advice and consent of Parliament, the House of Lords and the House of Commons.