WITH HER LOVING SON THE PRINCE OF WALES’S SUPPORT THE QUEEN PRESIDES OVER THE STATE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S DEATH
May 17, 2021
4 minutes
‘If a picture tells a thousand words, you have it all there. He was not just her heir in that moment, he was a son supporting his mother’
It’s been a month since she said a final farewell to her beloved husband of 73 years, but it was business as usual for the Queen last week when she carried out one of her most important public duties in the royal calendar.
However, the monarch was not alone as she presided over the State Opening of Parliament, her first official appearance outside Windsor Castle since the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral on 17 April. Her son and heir the Prince of Wales was at her side and, in a touching moment, he tenderly took her gloved hand as
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