State Opening of Parliament

State Opening of Parliament; ENGLAND: London: Houses of Parliament: House of Lords: INT TMS Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Anne, Princess Royal towards escorted up ceremonial staircase, led by Lord Chamberlain and Earl Marshall TS Lords seated in chamber TCMS Queen wearing Imperial State Crown L-R LTS Queen L-R past standing Lords TCMS Queen turns to BV up steps LTBV Queen followed by four pages holding her cloak and place train on ground as Queen approaches throne TMS Queen sits on throne and page away BV TRACK FORWARDS after Black Rod, Air Chief Marshall Sir John Gingell, sets off to summon the Commons by banging rod on doors and door opened, advances to bar TMS Black Rod bows twice to bar TBV Black Rod up to bar, government on left, opposition on right TMS BLACK ROD bows and steps forwards to announce SOF: "The Queen commands -- TBV Rod bows to left and to right of chamber -- House of Peers." and bows TMS Speaker of House of Commons, Bernard Weatherill, (wearing gown and wig) rises from seat and towards, politicians from front benches rise as Weatherill joins Black Rod towards followed by pairs, PM Margaret Thatcher and Neil Kinnock, Labour Leader, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Sec, and Roy Hattersley, Dep Lab Ldr, Leon Brittan, Trade & Industry Sec, and Denis Healey, Shadow Foreign Sec, Nigel Lawson, Chancellor of Exchequer, and Peter Shore, David Steel, Lib Ldr, and Dr David Owen, SDP Ldr, Norman Tebbit Tory Pty C'man, and Gerald Kaufman, Shadow Home Sec, Peter Walker, Energy Sec, Douglas Hurd, Home Sec, Sir Keith Joseph, Education Sec TBV Line of front benchers out of chamber LTS Back-benchers into back of House of Lords TMS SIDE Margaret Thatcher (wearing blue hat) at bar of Lords, Neil Kinnock behind her, and Sir Geoffrey Howe in b/g BV Lord Hailsham, Lord Chancellor, towards Queen with pouch to give Queen (seated in throne) the "Good speech" and Hailsham away towards (has Queen's permission to turn his back on her) ...