“It should go without saying that meaningful conferral is not a perfunctory exercise.”

During a short service in the nave of the church, the King will formally mark the conferral of city status.

King Charles will formally mark the conferral of city status and make a short speech in the chamber room.

During their visit to Dunfermline on Monday the King will formally mark the conferral of city status and make a short speech in the chamber room.

“The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”