ROYAL fans have all spotted the same thing as an 'uncomfortable' Prince Charles complained yesterday whilst standing in for the Queen.
Upon arrival at the House of Parliament, Charles could be seen emerging from his car wearing his Admiral of the Fleet uniform.
As the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall got out of their vehicle at the Sovereign's entrance, the pair appeared to exchange a few words before they went inside the building.
According to a lip-reader, during the exchange between the pair, Charles issued a complaint to his wife.
Jeremy Freeman, an expert in lip reading told the Mirror, says as they got out of the car, Charles told Camilla: ""Oh my word that was uncomfortable".
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Piers Morgan ‘wouldn’t put anything past’ Meg
Piers Morgan has branded Meghan Markle as a 'huge narcissist' and 'wouldn't put anything past' her as Biden's sister invites her to the Democratic Party.
The TalkTV presenter made reference to comments from current US President Joe Biden’s sister, Valeria Biden, who said Meghan would be a good potential candidate for the White House in the future
Piers voiced his fury toward Meghan, calling her a “scheming Princess Pinocchio” during a segment on his show, Uncensored.
When asked if the Duchess would be a good candidate for US President, Valeria told Good Morning Britain: “Yes, perhaps of course she will.”
She continued: “The more women we have, the better our democratic system will work. We welcome her to come in and join the Democratic Party.”
Piers said he “wouldn’t put anything past” Meghan, and said the White House would be a “perfectly feasible next rung on her relentless climb up the social ladder”.
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Her Maj remains ‘totally in charge’
PRINCE Charles was flanked by wife Camilla and son William as he stood in for the Queen at yesterday’s State Opening of Parliament — but royal sources insisted Her Majesty was still “very much” in charge.
The 96-year-old monarch’s absence with mobility problems has led to fears she may never continue her duties as Head of State or again deliver her speech outlining the Government’s priorities.
But sources from across all royal palaces were yesterday quick to rule out any suggestion that heir Charles, 73, is acting as a prince regent.
A senior royal insider pointed out the Queen has been carrying out state duties since first being hampered while walking in the autumn, and that she will host a virtual Privy Council today.
Yesterday’s constitutional ceremony was a special exception because it needed her to be present at the Lords.
- Joseph Gamp
More help for thousands of households
Households were promised more help with energy bills as Parliament was officially opened on Tuesday.
At the opening of parliament yesterday, the Government laid out that the cost of living crisis was a priority.
But households shouldn’t expect more free cash any time soon.
Prince Charles said an Energy Security Bill would mean the energy price cap would continue beyond 2023.
It is the first time the Queen has not read the speech in 59 years.
Charles, 73, was granted powers to deliver the televised speech on the Government’s legislative programme alongside Prince William in a historic change to protocol.
The energy price cap was originally brought in as a temporary measure to help improve competition in the energy market.
The Government also said it would bring down the cost of heat pumps in a bid to encourage more households to switch to green energy.
From this month, families can apply for grants of up to £6,000 to help cover the costs of heat pump.
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The Queen's episodic mobility problems
The Queen skipped the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in nearly 60 years yesterday.
In a statement, the Palace said: "The Queen continues to experience episodic mobility problems, and in consultation with her doctors has reluctantly decided that she will not attend the State Opening of Parliament tomorrow."
The 96-year-old has been forced to sit out major engagements due to mobility issues affecting her knees, hips, and back.
There are fears over whether she will be to make an appearance at her four-day Platinum Jubilee, which starts on Thursday, June 2.
- Joseph Gamp
Queen misses UK parliament opening for first time since 1963
Head of state Queen Elizabeth II missed Tuesday's ceremonial opening of the UK parliament for the first time in nearly 60 years, handing the duty to her heir Prince Charles in a clear sign of the looming transition of power.
The 96-year-old monarch usually presides over the pomp-filled event and reads out her government's legislative programme from a gilded throne in the House of Lords.
But Buckingham Palace said late Monday she would skip the annual showpiece on medical advice, making the decision "reluctantly" as she continues to experience "episodic mobility problems".
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No.10: Speech contained ‘one of the busiest legislative programmes in 15 years’
Downing Street has said the Queen’s Speech contained one of the busiest legislative programmes in the last 15 years.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “This is rightly an ambitious legislative programme, it’s one of the busiest legislative programmes in the last 15 years, but these are issues that can’t wait.
“We’re confident that we have the capability to progress through them.”
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Harry & Meg’s contract allows them to sell-on any products rejected by Netflix
Meghan and executive producer David Furnish “are reviewing the project to see where else it could find a home”, according to sources.
They will be pitching the series concept to other TV networks and streamers including Apple and Amazon.
The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex’s contract with Netflix allows the couple to sell on any products that the streaming platform turns down.
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What else was announced in the Queen's Speech?
- A Brexit bonanza to rip up £1billion of EU red tape still slapped on businesses
- A ban on eco goons locking onto buildings and blockading vital services
- A crackdown on kids skipping school with new attendance rules
- Prosecuting tech bosses for flouting tough new social media rules
- Rights for renters from shameless landlord chucking them out
- Letting councils turn streets into al fresco dining hubs
- Blocking ferry companies that don't pay minimum wage from ports
- A British Bill of Rights to wrestle back powers from EU judges
- Powers for local authorities to force owners to use empty properties
- Giving local residents a say over street names
- Striking out with trade deals with Australia and New Zealand
- Protections for Northern Ireland veterans from being hounded
- Banning fake online reviews in a digital crackdown
- Outlawing cruel gender conversion therapy practices
- Driving out dodgy money and criminal gangs
When is the Queen's Platinum Jubilee on TV?
The Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving from St Paul's Cathedral is the first event which airs live on Friday, June 3 on BBC One.
On Saturday, June 4, The Queen and other members of the Royal Family attend The Derby at Epsom Downs, which will be shown on ITV.
The celebrations then continue into the night as the Platinum Party at the Palace airs live on BBC One.
On Sunday, June 5 many communities will come together for The Big Jubilee Lunch.
BBC One will be showing coverage of The Platinum Jubilee Pageant.
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What health issues has the Queen had?
The Queen isn't known to have any major medical health conditions, and has only occasionally pulled out of engagements due to illness throughout her reign.
However, the Monarch has been forced to sit out major engagements over the past six months due to mobility issues affecting her back, knees, and hips.
In October 2021, The Sun revealed that the Queen spent a night in hospital for tests after cancelling a two-day visit to Northern Ireland.
She then sat out appearances including the COP26 summit in Glasgow on medical advice.
In November 2021, she missed a wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph after a back sprain.
The Queen has been using a walking stick and needed her son Prince Andrew to help her into Westminster Abbey in April, 2022.
She was attending a thanksgiving ceremony for her late husband Prince Philip.
She also had a Covid-related health scare in February 2022, when she tested positive for the virus, but only experienced "mild cold-like symptoms".
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Will the Queen be at her Platinum Jubilee celebrations?
It is not known whether the Queen will attend the Jubilee celebrations.
It's thought she will decide on the day whether she will appear at each of the anniversary events.
A royal source told The Mirror: "There will certainly be fears over whether Her Majesty will be able to make any events for her Jubilee celebrations or have to really choose her battles.
"She will do her best but her health must come first and she is by now used to listening to the advice of her doctors as well as knowing her own limits."
- Joseph Gamp
How is The Queen doing?
In May 2022, the Queen missed the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years.
In a statement, the Palace said: "The Queen continues to experience episodic mobility problems, and in consultation with her doctors has reluctantly decided that she will not attend the State Opening of Parliament tomorrow."
It's understood that she is planning to attend other appointments in the same week.
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Tory MP urges caution on elements of Queen's Speech
Conservative MP Ben Bradley welcomed a number of elements in the Queen's Speech, but said: "I want to urge caution on a couple of things as well, not least the Online Safety Bill.
"I think it's well intentioned, and I think we all understand the reasons why we would want to seek to protect people online, and why things that are illegal in the 'real world' should also be illegal online, but I am also concerned about the risk of allowing big tech companies to police our language and our speech."
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Major schools change revealed
A crackdown on kids skipping school was unveiled among the blizzard of pledges in today’s Queen’s Speech.
Tough attendance rules will be enshrined in law to wrestle down truancy rates that soared during the pandemic.
Teachers will be required to draw up attendance policies to ensure as many children as possible are in class.
Separately a new national register of home-schooled kids will be compiled to stop children “falling through the cracks”.
Prince Charles formally announced the Schools Bill in the House of Lords this morning as he stepped in for his frail mother.
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Harry ‘in danger of becoming just another foreign prince’
A royal author has claimed that Prince Harry could become “just another foreign prince” if he further cuts ties with the Royal Family.
Royal author of the newly-released biography ‘The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II’, and photographer Ian Lloyd told Express.co.uk: “It’s a shame because he has got the Invictus Games and quite a lot going for him.
“But I think he is in danger of evaporating.
“He and Meghan haven’t had the great launch in America we were expecting, they promised a lot and so far nothing much has happened.
“And I think they will soon realise that with Netflix and other deals it is just people ultimately wanting to trade on their royal status.”
Lloyd continued to say: “Why Harry is a big name in America? It is because his mother was Diana and his grandmother Elizabeth II.
“If he does distance himself from the Royal Family that brand will eventually be damaged, he will be just another foreign prince.
“He needs to be working in close ties with the Royal Family to heal the divisions to strengthen his own brand.”
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What is Meghan’s ‘Pearl’?
Pearl follows the adventures of a young girl who found inspiration via influential women throughout history.
The cartoon had been announced last summer, with Meghan saying at the time: “Like many girls her age, our heroine Pearl is on a journey of self-discovery as she tries to overcome life’s daily challenges.”
Meghan and Harry had created Archewell Productions at Netflix in autumn 2020 in order to create original documentaries and children’s shows, with Pearl set to be their first animated series.
Last week all references to Pearl were wiped from her Archewell website.
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Harry & Meg's contract allows them to sell-on any products rejected by Netflix
Meghan and executive producer David Furnish “are reviewing the project to see where else it could find a home”, according to sources.
They will be pitching the series concept to other TV networks and streamers including Apple and Amazon.
The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex’s contract with Netflix allows the couple to sell on any products that the streaming platform turns down.
- Joseph Gamp
No.10: Speech contained ‘one of the busiest legislative programmes in 15 years’
Downing Street has said the Queen’s Speech contained one of the busiest legislative programmes in the last 15 years.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “This is rightly an ambitious legislative programme, it’s one of the busiest legislative programmes in the last 15 years, but these are issues that can’t wait.
“We’re confident that we have the capability to progress through them.”
- Joseph Gamp
William gives personal tribute to Manchester bombing bereaved at memorial opening (2/2)
William told the families: "For Catherine and I it is very important that we are with you here today. To remember the 22 lives so brutally taken.
"To acknowledge the hundreds of lives that were irrevocably changed and to pay tribute to the resilience of this great city.
"I remember only too well the shock and grief on the faces of those I met when I visited Manchester in the days following the atrocity.
"Five years on I know that the pain and the trauma felt by many has not gone away.
"As someone who lives with his own grief, I also know that what often matters most to the bereaved is that those we have lost are not forgotten.
"There is comfort in remembering. In acknowledging that, while taken horribly soon, they lived.
"They changed our lives.
"They were loved, and they are loved. It is why memorials such as the Glade of Light are so important. Why Catherine and I so wanted to be amongst you today."
The duke said the memorial would be a place of solace for families and for all Mancunians.
He added: "And we remember the entirety of the Manchester community who responded in the most heart-warming and life-affirming ways possible to support those affected.
"This was an attack on an evening of music. And it occurred in a city that has given the world so many songs to sing."
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William gives personal tribute to Manchester bombing bereaved at memorial opening (1/2)
The Duke of Cambridge has given a deeply personal tribute to the still grieving loved ones of the 22 people murdered in the Manchester Arena terror bombing as the public memorial officially opened in the city.
William said that “as someone who lives with his own grief” it matters that those we have lost are never forgotten, as he addressed families at the Glade of Light memorial, a short distance from the Manchester Arena.
The duke called the city an “extraordinary place” which had refused to “look back in anger” but responded to hate with love.
William, who in the morning accompanied his father the Prince of Wales to the Queen’s Speech in Parliament, was accompanied by the Duchess of Cambridge to the ceremony, which comes ahead of the fifth anniversary of the terror attack on May 22 2017.
The royal visitors attended a short service, before William made his brief remarks and walked around the memorial, where the duchess laid a bouquet of flowers.
Relatives of the 22 who were killed wiped away tears and exchanged hugs as a choir sang Halo by Beyonce, which includes the refrain, ‘I can feel your halo’.
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Speech featured 38 bills
In all, the speech featured 38 Bills, including seven measures scrapping EU regulation – covering areas from data reform to gene-editing to financial services – as ministers seek to capitalise on the benefits of Brexit.
It included a new crackdown on “guerrilla protests” with jail sentences of up to six months and unlimited fines for those who glue themselves to roads or “lock on” to public transport infrastructure.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said the measures were necessary to prevent protest groups like Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion from bringing the country to “a grinding halt”.
In a sign of the Government’s determination to drive them through now, officials said the legislation could be introduced in Parliament as early as Wednesday.
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What happens at the State Opening of Parliament?
The State Opening is a constitutional ceremony in which the government’s agenda for the 2022-23 session is set out.
Proposed policies and legislation are outlined in the speech, which is written by the Government.
Before hand the Queen traditionally travels from the Palace to Parliament in a procession, arriving at the Sovereign’s Entrance.
There is then a Royal Procession to the House of Lords chamber, with symbols of her power and authority carried in front of her.
Normally, the Queen then sits in the Throne in the House of Lords and instructs the Lord Great Chamberlain to signal the Black Rod to summon MPs from the other house.
They then enter to listen to her read the speech.
Following the speech, a parliamentary session begins, and members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords debate the content of the speech.
In the Commons, members debate the legislative programme for several days and it’s then voted on.
The Lords do so over five days, and then bills are introduced.
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Withdrawal from State Opening of Parliament sparks fresh health fears
THE Queen will miss the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years due to her worsening mobility problems.
She made the shock call to pull out after speaking to her royal doctor. Prince Charles, 73, has been granted powers to deliver the televised speech alongside Prince William in a historic change to protocol.
The dramatic withdrawal has sparked fresh fears for the Queen’s health a month before her Platinum Jubilee party.
Buckingham Palace confirmed Her Majesty, 96, will not be at today’s ceremony in Westminster because of “episodic mobility problems”.
She has instead issued a royal decree allowing son Charles, 73, and grandson William, 39, powers to act in her place for one day only.
They will now “jointly” open the new session of Parliament on her behalf as Counsellors of State.
The Queen’s absence marks the first time since 1963 she has failed to attend the State Opening, and only the second time ever.
Her throne will sit empty and it is understood the Imperial State Crown will travel to Parliament though Charles will not wear it.
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The Black Rod
The House of Lords official known as Black Rod is sent to summon the Commons.
The doors to the Commons chamber are shut in the face of the Black Rod, a practice dating back to the Civil War, symbolising the Commons’ independence from the monarchy.
Black Rod strikes the door three times before it is opened.
Members of the House of Commons then follow Black Rod and the Commons Speaker to the Lords chamber, standing at the opposite end to the Throne, known as the Bar of the House, to listen to the speech.EditDelete
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Queen's speech: 'No-fault evictions' to be abolished in bid to protect private renters
The Government will introduce legislation to protect private renters and abolish so-called no-fault evictions – making good on its manifesto promise.
The Renters Reform Bill will provide security for tenants in the private rented sector by ending Section 21 notices, which allow landlords to evict a tenant without having to give a reason.
It will also "strengthen landlords' rights of possession", therefore providing a "fair and effective" market for tenants and landlords, the Government said.
In a separate Social Housing Regulation Bill, it will increase social housing tenants' rights, and improve how they can hold landlords to account, in response to concerns raised by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.
The Renters Reform Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will introduce stronger possession grounds when there are repeated incidences of rent arrears, and reduce notice periods when there is antisocial behaviour.
It will introduce an ombudsman so disputes between private landlords and tenants can be resolved without going to court.
And a property portal will be established to help landlords understand their responsibilities and give tenants "performance indication" to hold their landlord to account.
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