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Word Watch: Accession
A monarch succeeds his or her predecessor and accedes to the throne, a process called accession, not ascension.
A monarch succeeds his or her predecessor and accedes to the throne, a process called accession, not ascension.
Over her 70 year reign, the Queen has been a point of stability and an anchor for the United Kingdom.
A foreign state sponsors a political assassination on English soil. The attempt fails. In its aftermath, Her Majesty’s government asks her expert advisers what is
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