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Marcus Chumlee whose job it is today to
carry the crown normally worn by the
Queen but not today and to carry the
crown at the head of the procession and
there we have the Queen's official
consort today the Prince of Wales who
will be 71 next month having served
almost a lifetime as heir to the throne
and as Prince of Wales the Queen was
attended so many of these state openings
art from a few over the years but the
vast majority of them and will know
exactly where every single member of the
pageantry and the ceremonial is meant to
be and has a very sharp eye for the
detail of the entire thing
I'm told that she misses nothing along
the way so there'll be lots of nerves
there among the yeoman and all the
others about exactly where they're
standing and exactly how they're holding
themselves trained bearers who've been
specially chosen and then of course we
have the principal members of the
procession including the captain of the
gentleman at arms and the captain of the
yeoman of the guard who also feature in
the procession today and passing the
gentleman at arms who are lining the
princess chamber providing a guard of
honour the princes chamber a short walk
through passed the statue of Queen
Victoria just on the left there passed
the portrait of Henry the eighth and the
other Tudor monarchs and into this
magnificent chamber of the House of
Lords the masterpiece of Barry and pujan
Queen will approach and take a place on
the throne of the House of Lords with
the Prince of Wales next to her the
crown will be placed on the table the
Duchess of Cornwall will take a place on
the state chair that's been put there on
the right hand side and the first thing
that we'll hear from the Queen is an
invitation to the members of the House
of Lords and guests to be seated
my Lords pray be seated
chrome being placed the queen will
signal her approval for black rod
Marcus Chumlee gives his signal with his
stave of office and the signal has been
received by the lady usher of the
blackboard Sarah clock in her first
state opening so a very big moment for
her taking part in one of the most
famous pieces of parliamentary
ceremonial that we have making our way
down from the central Lobby black rod is
announced and approaching the members
lobby of the House of Commons by the
members congregate
and approaching the door of the Commons
which will be slammed in her face as a
sign of the authority of the House of
Commons
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three very firm knocks she enters will
there be any heckling there might be
mr. speaker the Queen commands this
honourable house to attend her magic
state immediately in the House of Peers
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some words of dissent there and no
prizes for guessing who they came from
the veteran neighbor and pipa Bolsover
Denis Skinner who specializes in a bit
of heckling on these events and there we
have the first time Boris Johnson as
Prime Minister walking with Jeremy
Corbyn the leader of the Opposition on
this screen speech day in Blackfoot at
the SNP lists have a Robert supplied
summary members of the cabinet and the
labor front bench including John
McDonald all of them walking in not
quite in a rush but certainly there's
always a bit of jostling I have to say
when it gets to the middle and back of
the queue because they know that unless
they jostle they won't get anywhere near
the hours of Lords
dick Brown the chief it for labor okay
let's simply conservatives such a job is
there the Chancellor says he'd be
delivering a budget next month