Tickets Alert: Attend the City of London’s ancient Silent Ceremony

Each year, the new Lord or Lady Mayor of London is sworn into office in a ceremony as rich in pomp as it is ancient in history, and in total silence. And a smallish number of the public are invited to attend.
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For over 800 years, on Michaelmas Day, the City of London’s liverymen elect a new Mayor for the year ahead, and a few weeks later, the Silent Ceremony takes place. It’s not absolutely silent, as, apart from the occasional muffled cough or ringing of a mobile p