Audience (meeting)

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This article is about meeting a head of state. For other uses, see Audience (disambiguation).

Audience of the French diplomat le Vicomte d'Andrezel with the Sultan Ahmed III on 10 October 1724 in the Topkapı Palace.

An audience is a formal meeting that takes place between a head of state and another person at the invitation of the head of state. Often, the invitation follows a request for a meeting from the other person. Though sometimes used in republics to describe meetings with presidents, the term is more usually associated with monarchs and popes.

Holy See

In the past, rigid

cutaway. An ascot or equivalent formal tie would be worn with a gray waistcoat over a white dress shirt with arrow collars. If any part of the audience were to occur outdoors, a black top hat would be worn. If the function were entirely indoors, then the hat was optional for men. Both gentlemen and ladies were to wear dress gloves. Evening functions were usually white tie
.

Formal dress is now normally reserved for diplomatic audiences. In the 1990s, an Irish Catholic priest provoked a controversy by claiming that the president of his country, Mary Robinson, had breached protocol by wearing jewellery and by not wearing black nor a mantilla for an audience with Pope John Paul II. The Vatican subsequently pointed out that the traditional form of dress worn for papal audiences was no longer obligatory.

Modern popes grant large audiences to crowds in

St. Peter's Square or the Paul VI Audience Hall
.

United Kingdom

In the

British monarch are usually listed in the Court Circular, which is published daily by the broadsheet press. The Prime Minister has a weekly audience with the monarch usually every Wednesday,[1] during parliamentary time at Buckingham Palace
.

Denmark

In the

Amalienborg Palace.[2]

References

  1. ^ "The Queen's working day: Evening". Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Audiens". kongehuset.dk. Archived from the original on 19 May 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2012.

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