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News Americas, LONDON, England, Mon. May 8, 2023: A Caribbean born baroness was front and center in the Royal Box last night on King Charles right at the all-stars coronation concert, leading to many asking online who was sitting next to the king.
She is Dominica-born Patricia Janet Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, PC, KC, a British diplomat, barrister and politician, serving as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations. The 67-year-old was elected at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and took office on April 1 2016.
Baroness Scotland is the 10th child of 12 born to Roman Catholic parents, a Dominican mother and Antiguan father. Her family emigrated to Walthamstow in north-east London when she was two years old, where she attended Chapel End Primary School and Walthamstow School for Girls. She then went on to Mid Essex Technical College in Chelmsford, where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from University of London as an external student. She was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1977, specializing in family law, and was called to the Dominican bar in 1978.
WINDSOR, ENGLAND MAY 07: (L-R) The Prince of Wales, Rishi Sunak, Camilla, Queen Consort, Akshata Murthy, King Charles III and Patricia Scotland during the Coronation Concert on May 07, 2023 in Windsor, England. The Windsor Castle Concert is part of the celebrations of the Coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms that took place at Westminster Abbey yesterday. High-profile performers will entertain members of the royal family and 20,000 guests including 10,000 members of the public. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
In 1991, Scotland became the first black woman to be appointed a Queens Counsel. She later founded the (now closed) 1 Grays Inn Square barristers chambers. Early in 1997, she was elected as a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Scotland was named as a Millennium Commissioner on 17 February 1994, and was a member of the Commission for Racial Equality. She received a life peerage on a Labour Party list of working peers and was created Baroness Scotland of Asthal, of Asthal in the County of Oxfordshire on 30 October 1997.
From 1999 to 2001, Scotland was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where she was responsible, among others, for the UK Governments diplomatic relations with North America, the Caribbean, Overseas Territories, Consular Division, British Council, administration and all Parliamentary business in the House of Lords.
In 2001 she became Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellors Department, and was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
In 2003, Scotland was made Minister of State for the Criminal Justice System and Law Reform at the Home Office and deputy to the Home Secretary. She served in that post until 2007 under three Home Secretaries: David Blunkett, Charles Clarke and John Reid.
On 28 June 2007, Scotland was appointed Attorney General by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She was the first woman to hold the office since its foundation in 1315.
In November 2012, she was appointed Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to South Africa.
In December 2014, Scotland was elected as the Alderman for the ward of Bishopsgate in the City of London, having stood (in accordance with convention in the City) as an independent candidate.
At the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Scotland was nominated for the position of Commonwealth Secretary-General by her native country of Dominica and defeated Antiguan diplomat Ronald Sanders, who was thought to have been the frontrunner for the position, and former deputy secretary-general for political affairs Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba of Botswana to become the 6th Commonwealth Secretary-General and the first woman to hold the post.
Performances at the event came from several singers across the Commonwealth, including the Caribbean, who made up the virtual Commonwealth choice as well as mega stars includingLionel Richie,Katy PerryandAndrea Bocelli. Some 20,000 guests attended the event atWindsor Castle. The Reggae Roots choir, a community choir based in Birmingham performed as part of the Choir as well as singers from The Bahamas, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
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In 1991, Scotland became the first black woman to be appointed a Queens Counsel. She later founded the (now closed) 1 Grays Inn Square barristers chambers. Early in 1997, she was elected as a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Scotland was named as a Millennium Commissioner on 17 February 1994, and was a member of the Commission for Racial Equality. She received a life peerage on a Labour Party list of working peers and was created Baroness Scotland of Asthal, of Asthal in the County of Oxfordshire on 30 October 1997.
From 1999 to 2001, Scotland was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where she was responsible, among others, for the UK Governments diplomatic relations with North America, the Caribbean, Overseas Territories, Consular Division, British Council, administration and all Parliamentary business in the House of Lords.
In 2001 she became Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellors Department, and was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
In 2003, Scotland was made Minister of State for the Criminal Justice System and Law Reform at the Home Office and deputy to the Home Secretary. She served in that post until 2007 under three Home Secretaries: David Blunkett, Charles Clarke and John Reid.
On 28 June 2007, Scotland was appointed Attorney General by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She was the first woman to hold the office since its foundation in 1315.
In November 2012, she was appointed Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to South Africa.
In December 2014, Scotland was elected as the Alderman for the ward of Bishopsgate in the City of London, having stood (in accordance with convention in the City) as an independent candidate.
At the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Scotland was nominated for the position of Commonwealth Secretary-General by her native country of Dominica and defeated Antiguan diplomat Ronald Sanders, who was thought to have been the frontrunner for the position, and former deputy secretary-general for political affairs Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba of Botswana to become the 6th Commonwealth Secretary-General and the first woman to hold the post.
Performances at the event came from several singers across the Commonwealth, including the Caribbean, who made up the virtual Commonwealth choice as well as mega stars includingLionel Richie,Katy PerryandAndrea Bocelli. Some 20,000 guests attended the event atWindsor Castle. The Reggae Roots choir, a community choir based in Birmingham performed as part of the Choir as well as singers from The Bahamas, Antigua & Barbuda, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
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