LONDON (AP) — Yeomen of the guard, a diamond-studded crown and an official known as Black Rod — they're all ingredients of Britain’s State Opening of Parliament, an event where centuries-old ritual meets modern-day politics. On Tuesday, King Charles III will sit on a gilded throne and read out the King’s Speech, a list of planned laws drawn up by the U.K.'s Conservative government and aimed at winning over voters before the country's general election next year. The king is performing a role that his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, fulfilled for seven decades and other British monarchs carried out before her in a tradition stretching back hundreds of years.