Charles proclaimed king

The King's declaration also shows the ancient Biblical principle, re-asserted in the wake of the Protestant reforms, that the king reigns always under God. Ironically this was precisely the idea that caused the overthrow of the doctrine of the divine rights of kings. The publication of the Bible in the vernacular languages of Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries after Christ, enabled the Protestant reformers, by reference to scripture, to re-advance the cause that the authority of kings - and hence the State - is held on trust for the good of the people, under an almighty, intelligent, creative, personal, loving, universal good and moral God, transcendent above any secular interest or institution, who has made mankind, male and female, in his own image. The modern doctrine of equality which preoccupies modernity, even among atheists, is of Biblical origin.

Since the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, society has become more secular but this does not justify ignoring the fact that the new King's pledge of service is based on Christ's teachings: "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all": Mark 10:43.

In the history of ideas, this is the spiritual import of the proceedings, and the fundamental reason why the Accession Council meeting requires the new King to give his declaration and other promises and commitments restraining and foregoing absolute power before they are prepared to proclaim him king.

It is why the one thing the accession council makes absolutely sure of, and the first item of business before proclaiming anyone king, is that he must first swear an oath on the Bible, and prove by signing his declaration with witnesses, to "maintain the settlement of the true Protestant religion": - because this was the rock on which the entire edifice of government in modern-day multi-cultural Britain was established, with its beliefs in the rule of law, constitutional government, government as an institution of service, and beliefs in toleration, freedom, progress and equality.

It is to stop the king getting above himself; and to stop the sovereign power from being licitly vacuumed up by foreign powers with their own agenda unfriendly to the interests and independence of the English people, a battle the English have had to fight repeatedly in history, to the benefit of all mankind.

That's why the band outside begins to play at this point.

Then the meeting authorises the use of the existing royal seals for various jurisdictions until new seals can be made.

Just as when you sign a document, you signify your approval, so the king signifies his agreement to decisions he approves by the royal seal.

The Australian Constitution vests the executive power of the Australian Commonwealth in the monarch who delegates it to his subordinate officer the Governor-General of Australia, by decisions under the royal seal. This item of business in the meeting was urgent because without it, there could be a gap in the manner of transmitting executive orders down the chain of command. The legitimacy of executive action would be cut off at the root.

This is the tap-root, the continuing legal connection between the Crown and the executive arm of government in the "realms": those countries including Australia which have the Crown as their head of state.

Government being a human institution, we have only imperfect human beings to run it. It has always been, remains, and will always be a magnet for people who want to exercise power over their fellow human beings. The struggle for liberty is always a work in progress against the behemoth. However in the scheme of things you could do a lot worse than receive this inheritance; and it is the reason so many people migrate from other countries to the United Kingdom, or its downstream realms including settled by the British diaspora.