Kissing hands

This article is about the UK constitutional term. For the more general ritual of greeting and respect, see Hand-kissing.

"To kiss hands" is a constitutional term used in the United Kingdom to refer to the formal installation of the prime minister or other Crown-appointed government ministers to their office.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.