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Court of St James's - Wikipedia

All ambassadors and high commissioners from the United Kingdom are formally accredited from the court—not the United Kingdom—as they are representatives of the Crown.[1]

The Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (before 1920, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_…

Master of the Ceremonies), who acts as the link between the British monarch and foreign diplomatic missions, is permanently based at St James's Palace. The office was created as recently as 1920 to replace the former Master of the Ceremonies, an office dating from c.1620. Before

1920, the Vice-Marshal was known as the Marshal of the Ceremonies.[2]
The Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps is, along with the Queen's Equerry, expected to walk backwards discreetly when leaving the presence of the monarch.

The office of Master of the Ceremonies was established by King James I/VI. The Master's duties were to receive foreign dignitaries and present them to the monarch at court. Below is a list of known holders until the replacement of the office by the Marshal of the

Diplomatic Corps in 1920. In 1603, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died childless. He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean era, until his death. After the Union of the Crowns, he based

himself in England (the largest of the three realms) from 1603, returning to Scotland only once, in 1617, and styled himself "King of Great Britain and Ireland". He was a major advocate of a single parliament for England and Scotland. In his reign, the Plantation of Ulster and

English colonisation of the Americas began.