On Tuesday, she will attend a service at Westminster Abbey to mark 60 years since the coronation. Queen Elizabeth II, 95, has been on the throne for 69 years and June 2 is the anniversary of her coronation. The Queen takes Coronation Oath Credit: PA/PA Archive/Press Association Images. 2023 BBC. Published online by Cambridge University Press: However, Erskine May: parliamentary practice (24th edition, London, 2011), p 2, asserts that the King or Queen has always enjoyed by prescription, custom and law, the chief place in Parliament and the sole executive power. A copy of the Queen's coronation oath as it appeared in the Order of Service for the Coronation is published on the Royal Family's official website. There was often no writing, but one party had performed certain provisions of the contract. The reference to the statutes in Parliament agreed upon remained absent. During her oath in 1953 the Queen pledged to "maintain the Laws of God". The requirement to uphold the Protestant faith in Scotland is unremarkable on account of the fact that, by the provisions of the Treaty of Union, the monarch must swear to maintain the true Protestant Religion in Scotland.Footnote The US president met with Camilla and various other members of the royal family. The question about the authority for these changes in the oath had been raised prior to Edward VII's coronation and this gives some insight into how the legality of the amendments were regarded at the start of that century. But the written oath that she signed on that momentous day has rarely been seen - until now. Meanwhile, there are more significant differences between the King's ceremony and that of his late mother. England, as a sovereign state, ceased to exist.Footnote 'And I will preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them. And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them, or any of them?Footnote