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There were two elections that year and so two State Openings, but only one of these was scaled down.
There were two elections that year and so two State Openings, but only one of these was scaled down.
Wow, well that sucks. Totally makes you think whIle at the same time bringing the part down.
Queen Elisabeth promised to " maintain pressure on Russia to respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine promised". Tengrinews.kz
Such point in the speech is not surprising.
I remember reading about the March 1974 State Opening before. I've read the court circular entry in the times archive and it does say The Queen drove in a motor car to the peers entrance and then opened Parliament. But The Times had no photos of the event.
Has anyone ever seen photos of The Queen attending this very different style State Opening?
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It isn't broken, so why the need to fix it ? Just because the continental royals do it one way, why do we need to ape them ? Our royal family didn't start trundling around on bicycles when the Dutch royals [temporarily] did so...
The continuity and symbolism of 'the King in Parliament' embodied in the State opening [as now constituted] is part of the warp and weft of life here, and why should everything be standardised to 'European models' , whose history is SO different from ours ?
Has anyone said it has to change? I only said the current system with the unelected House of Lords will change, the whole Britain is changing anyway, ask Nicola's troops...
And when the current system of Westminster changes, it will also have consequences for how the current State Opening of Parliament looks. Many of the old "traditions" are newly invented anyway. A State Opening today is vast different from a State Opening under Queen Victoria. For an example: the current building was not yet as we know it when Queen Victoria came on the throne. The current ceremony in the House of Lords was newly invented when the first State Opening started to take place in that venue. It is not that all vested in un-destroyable concrete...
And the British State opening of Parliament along with our Coronations and Royal Weddings makes what they do on the continent look like a high school prom
The British are still the kings of pomp and circumstance.
The Queen has for the first time chosen to use a lift to get to the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament, in one of the most public concessions to her age to date.
Household Cavalry soldiers in full dress uniform had lined the 26 steps at the Sovereign’s Entrance, but the Queen, 90, and the 94-year-old Duke of Edinburgh bypassed them in favour of the lift to the Robing Room.
It is there that the Queen puts on her heavy robes of State and the Imperial State Crown.
Her Majesty is understood to suffer from sore knees, but Buckingham Palace denied the use of the lift was connected to any specific health issue.
A spokesman said: “It is a modest adjustment made for the Queen’s comfort.”
In her tenth decade, the Queen’s staff are constantly trying to find ways to make her public engagements less physically demanding, though Her Majesty remains in remarkably good health for her age and still goes riding.
Weighed down with heavy ceremonial crowns and robes, the Queen looked resplendent as she arrived for the State Opening of Parliament this morning, one of the most important events of her calendar.
As well as Queen Victoria's pearl drop earrings and the Diamond Jubilee necklace, the monarch wore two crowns - starting the day with the George IV State Diadem, set with 1,333 diamonds, to travel from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords.
She wore a white dress by Angela Kelly and the same silver evening shoes by her favourite brand Anello & Davide that she wore to last year's event to deliver a speech setting out plans for the UK's first spaceport and driverless cars as well as an online porn crackdown, a 'universal' right to high-speed broadband, NHS charges for foreigners and a major prisons overhaul.
The tradition, which dates back to the 16th century, is one of the most spectacular of the royal calendar and sees the Queen wearing two of the most important pieces in the Royal collection of jewels and clothing, both also worn for the coronation: the Imperial State Crown and the Robe of the State.
AFAIK The Duchess of Cornwall always wear white at the State Opening of the Parliament. Is this a tradition or only the personal taste of her?
AFAIK The Duchess of Cornwall always wear white at the State Opening of the Parliament. Is this a tradition or only the personal taste of her?