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As Queen's chaplain, Rose will not tone down her message

When the Rev. Rose Hudson-Wilkin preaches her first sermon in her new role as chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II she will face a very different congregation to those who attend her regular services as a parish priest in Hackney, one of London's most deprived areas, an area which has witnessed recent fatal teenage violence, reports Ecumenical News International.

Jamaica-born Rose, as she is know to her parishioners, regards her recent appointment to the roster of scarlet robed royal chaplains serving the monarch as a great honour for the people of her parish and herself, but says she will not be changing her style of preaching.

"One of the things I am passionate about is that we belong to one another and that we should not allow cultural differences to become a hindrance to finding a way to connect. I shall want to bring an awareness to others of the lives of the people I serve at Holy Trinity, Dalston and All Saints, Haggerston [in the district of Hackney]," Hudson-Wilkin told Ecumenical News Internatiol.

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