“My Lords and Members of the Home of Commons:
“I'm deeply grateful for the Addresses of Condolence by the Home of Lords and the Home of Commons, which so touchingly embody what our late sovereign, my beloved mom the Queen, meant to us all. As Shakespeare says of the sooner Queen Elizabeth, she was ‘a sample to all princes residing’.
“As I stand earlier than you in the present day, I can not assist however really feel the burden of historical past which surrounds us and which reminds us of the very important Parliamentary traditions to which Members of each Homes dedicate yourselves, with such private dedication for the betterment of us all.
“Parliament is the residing and respiratory instrument of our democracy. That your traditions are historical we see within the development of this nice Corridor and the reminders of medieval predecessors of the workplace to which I've been known as.
“And the tangible connections to my darling late mom we see throughout us; from the fountain in New Palace Yard which commemorates the late Queen’s Silver Jubilee to the sundial in Previous Palace Yard for the Golden Jubilee, the magnificent Stained Glass Window earlier than me for the Diamond Jubilee and, so poignantly and but to be formally unveiled, your most beneficiant reward to her late majesty to mark the unprecedented Platinum Jubilee which we celebrated solely three months in the past, with such joyful hearts.
“The nice bell of Large Ben – one of the crucial highly effective symbols of our nation all through the world and housed throughout the Elizabeth Tower additionally named for my mom’s Diamond Jubilee – will mark the passage of the late Queen’s progress from Buckingham Palace to this Parliament on Wednesday.
“My Lords and Members of the Home of Commons:
“We collect in the present day in remembrance of the outstanding span of The Queen’s devoted service to her nations and peoples. Whereas very younger, her late majesty pledged herself to serve her nation and her individuals and to keep up the dear ideas of constitutional authorities which lie on the coronary heart of our nation. This vow she stored with unsurpassed devotion.
“She set an instance of selfless responsibility which, with God’s assist and your counsels, I'm resolved faithfully to comply with.”
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