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The White House named the price — 15% of their revenues from such sales — and the companies assented willingly.

His chief obstacle may be politics, chiefly the state Legislature’s resistance to the many proposals that require its assent.

But it has now finally been passed, without the amendment, and will become law once royal assent is given.

The law is in limbo, as Ramaphosa – about four months after giving his assent to it – has still not set a date for its implementation.

King Charles's grandfather George VI granted royal assent to several bills when he visited Canada in 1939, but he never delivered a throne speech.