House of Commons23 October 2028
Rosa Delgado's private member's bill for a Fifteenth Amendment, which would move the American Rights Act into the Charter so that a court could void an Act breaching it instead of only declaring it incompatible, has been introduced with the signatures of members of four other parties. The ministry has said that the Heads of Agreement leave it unable to take the bill up, and that it will support a motion sending the question to a select committee. An amendment needs both Houses, a double majority at a referendum and Assent. The Charter has not been amended since 1989.
New Westminster General Hospital20 October 2028
The King woke in the small hours of 20 October at New Westminster General and knew his family. He is awake for short spells, very weak and not recovered, and performs no function of the Crown. The five officers of the Regency Act resolved that morning, the Speaker concurring, that the declaration of 30 September stands until his physicians certify that he can act, and each of the other twelve realms left its regency in place on its own law; Britain says that its own physicians must certify. On 24 October his physicians said that his speech and parts of his memory may not recover fully. The Queen remains Regent in thirteen realms, and the law officers' reference on Article II.8 of the Charter stays open.
The Exchange, Charles Town18 October 2028
The Parliamentary Archive has lent the chair of the Viceroy of the rebel state of 1861, which stood empty on the dais of the rebel Congress for two years and has been in the Archive since 1863, to the Exchange museum at Charles Town for an exhibition opening this week. It is the first time the chair has left New Westminster. Descendants of people freed in the Low Country and groups that still call the rebels the loyal party have both asked to be heard at the opening, and the Province has not said who will speak.
The Royal American Supreme Court17 October 2028
The Court has not yet given judgment in the freight railways' challenge to section 12 of the Railway Passenger Service Act 1971, argued in the spring, which gives AmRail's trains priority on their track at a fee the Transport Minister sets. Union Pacific and three other companies say it takes their property contrary to the American Rights Act; AmRail pleads public necessity. The coalition's Heads of Agreement say nothing about the railway, and the Minister has not commented.
House of Commons, Westminster13 October 2028
The minority bill, whose draft would let Prince Frederick act as Regent from sixteen, on 2 May 2029, has been introduced at Westminster and sits in committee without a date, and the Prime Minister has declined to say when it will be taken. No other realm has published a draft of its own, and the foreign offices of the realms have opened talks on a common age, three of them saying that they would not move from eighteen. Under the Realm's Act he would take the regency from his mother at eighteen, on 2 May 2031.
Federal Court, Yogyakarta12 October 2028
The Federal Court has Sulawesi against the Federation before it, on the state's request for twice the fifteen per cent royalty on the nickel that the Realm's and the Concert's battery makers depend on. The Prime Minister's government argues that a mineral on which the whole economy depends is not a state's own, and a judgement is not expected before next year.
The Paul VI Audience Hall, Rome11 October 2028
Peter II led prayers for Ernest V at the Wednesday general audience, a fortnight after the King's aircraft was lost east of Newfoundland, and asked the hall to pray also for the Queen as Regent and for those who were travelling with him. The King was then unconscious in hospital at New Westminster. The Pope, who met him in 2025 and again on his visit to the Realm in 2026, has written privately to the Queen, and the Holy See has said nothing further.
The Landtag, Berlin11 October 2028
Princess Charlotte, sworn on 11 October as sole Regent of Prussia and of the Empire after both parliaments abolished the Regency Council, dissolved the Prussian Abgeordnetenhaus on the advice of Dr Johanna Falk, whom the Constitutional Court had restored two days earlier. The Zentrum had left Falk's coalition on 3 October, and no combination of parties could confirm a Minister-President. Falk leads a caretaker ministry into an election on 3 December, and the 2029 estimates remain unintroduced.
Federal Congress, San Salvador10 October 2028
The Court of the Union at San José has not ruled on the count that made Tomás Alvarado President-elect of the Union by about four thousand votes, and the deputies of Nicaragua and San Salvador have again asked that it be annulled before President Tum Caal leaves office. If it is annulled, nobody can say whether the turn of Honduras is spent or merely postponed.
Constitution Committee, Riksdag, Stockholm10 October 2028
The Riksdag's Constitution Committee has opened an inquiry into whether a Queen of Sweden may lawfully act for other Crowns, after Queen Christina became Regent of thirteen of her husband's fourteen realms. Prime Minister Lindholm said that it will report after the regencies end and not before, and that nobody in Stockholm wishes the Queen to be defending her conduct while she is doing it.
Assembly of Venezuela, Caracas9 October 2028
The Assembly of the state of Venezuela has voted to hold back part of its oil revenue until the Oil Compact of 1936 is renegotiated, and the Court of the Union at Quito has the case. The President says the Union will abide by the Court. The Venezuelan governor says the Compact is a contract and a state may decline one. No date has been set for a ruling.
The British High Commission2 October 2028
Parliament at Westminster declared the King incapable on 2 October, by an Act passed in a single day on the evidence of his physicians at New Westminster General, and made Queen Christina Regent of Great Britain. She gave the royal assent herself, as the King's delegate, and three British privy counsellors swore her that evening at the British High Commission in New Westminster, where the King lay in hospital, unconscious. The Realm made her its Regent under its own Act two days earlier. The question of Article II.8 of the Charter, referred when his death seemed possible, remains with the law officers.
Yellowknife14 September 2028
Parliament at Ottawa has agreed in principle that Mackenzie Territory may become New Albion's ninth province if its people vote for it, and the referendum is set for 2029. The Dene and Métis governments have said they will not support it without guaranteed seats and a veto over land, and the territory's share of the Athabasca oil sands, which Rupert's Land disputes, has not been agreed.
League of Nations, Geneva11 June 2028
The Assembly's special committee on the expansion of the Security Council continues to take submissions. There is no report and no amendment text, and delegations differ on whether the committee is expected to produce either.
Cape Town7 June 2028
The coalition has not resolved the standing of the Cape's languages in its schools and courts, and the committee appointed to do so has reported only that it cannot agree. The government's majority does not depend on the question, which is thought to be why it has survived it.
House of Commons14 May 2028
A private member's bill would oblige publishers of interactive works to deposit a playable copy and its source with the national repository, on the model of the film charters of 1924 to 1937. Its sponsors observe that the Realm holds nine tenths of its chartered pre-1930 cinema and is already losing the early output of its largest cultural industry. The Board of Trade has not indicated whether it will find time.
House of Lords28 April 2028
A committee has again taken evidence on why the statute governing the return of ancestral remains and objects of patrimony binds museums more tightly than the universities holding several of the largest collections. The nations giving evidence repeated that they regard the matter as one of obligation rather than of title. No amendment has been laid.
Congress of Chile, Valparaíso3 March 2028
A bill to return the Chilean Senate to Santiago, where it last sat in 1973, has been introduced for the new session, as one has been in every Congress since 1994. The Senate has met in Valparaíso provisionally since 1990, after the earthquake of 1985 wrecked the Congress building. No date has been set for a vote, and none has ever been.
The law officers2 March 2028
The question of what a royal charter obliges when its holder is a subsidiary of a company incorporated outside the Realm remains with the law officers, five years after two of the six chartered studios changed hands. No opinion has been published and none is promised.
West Indies Federation19 February 2028
The constitutional question of whether the federal government may settle relocated islanders on state land, and on what terms of citizenship, is now before the court. Two states have entered appearances against the federation and a third in support.