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Death of Queen Elizabeth King Charles III recieves motion of condolence at Scottish Parliament: Ceremonial feed 17.35 - 18.20; SCOTLAND: Edinburgh: Holyrood: Scottish Parliament: Alison Johnstone (The Presiding Officer) statement SOT - Today’s business is consideration of a motion of condolence in the name of Nicola Sturgeon. I call Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland, to speak to and move the motion of condolence. 17:55 Nicola Sturgeon (First Minister of Scotland) statement SOT (1 of 2) - Your Majesties, Presiding Officer, members of Parliament and honoured guests, it is my solemn duty, and my honour, to move the motion of condolence on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. For people across our country, this is a time of profound sorrow. While the nation’s grief is for our Queen, the royal family’s is for their beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Today, on behalf of the Parliament and people of Scotland, I offer my heartfelt condolences to Your Majesties, and to the Duke of Rothesay, the Princess Royal, the Earls of Inverness and Forfar, and to all members of Her Majesty’s wider family. When Queen Victoria died in 1901, Arthur Balfour led tributes in the House of Commons. He commented that the grief of the country was in part because they were marking the end of an epoch, “the beginning of which stretches beyond the memory ... of any individual whom I am now addressing”.—[Official Report, House of Commons, 25 January 1901; Vol 89, c 19-20.] Those words are just as true for us today. Most of us do not remember life without the Queen. When, as Princess Elizabeth, she gave a radio broadcast from South Africa on her 21st birthday, she was addressing an empire that still included India. When she became monarch, Winston Churchill was Prime Minister. In an ever-changing and often turbulent world, Her Majesty has been our constant. She has been the anchor of our nation. Our personal recollections are often intertwin...