Queen Elizabeth II is all set to accept the resignation of Boris Johnson and welcome Liz Truss, a one-time accountant who has served in the Parliament for 12 years, as the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The ceremony is set to take place in Scotland since the Queen is on her annual summer break in the country. 

Liz Truss, who has been declared the winner of the Conservative Party leadership contest, will travel to Balmoral Castle on Tuesday to see the Queen and be appointed as the UK’s new Prime Minister. 

The ceremony will take place at a royal residence in Scotland, after a two-month contest to succeed Boris Johnson, who will formally submit his resignation to the shortly before Truss arrives at Scotland to take up the mantle.

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Liz Truss will be the fifteenth Prime Minister in Queen Elizabeth II’s seven-decade-long reign and the first one who is going to be appointed in Scotland instead of London. 

She will have a short audience with the Queen on Deeside. The outgoing Boris Johnson has not been able to meet the Queen face to face during his tenure as in his three years of being in office two were spent in the Covid-19 restrictions. 

After that interaction is over, Liz Truss will meet the Queen (at around 1100 hours, GMT). The Queen will then formally ask her to head the government of the country on account of leading the largest party in the House of Commons. 

Liz Truss is unlikely to spend more than an hour with the Queen. After having a conversation with the Queen, Liz will fly to London to deliver a speech in Downing Street and start forming her new administration. 

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The formal encounter between the two is likely to be described as ‘kissing hands’ by the Court Circular. This gesture of the new Prime Minister kissing the monarch’s hand shows the commitment and loyalty of the politician while establishing a new government in the monarch’s name.