In asking Charles and William to take her place for the Queen's Speech, Her Majesty is in some ways future-proofing an institution which she has worked so hard to protect, says Sky's Rhiannon Mills
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With no Queen to deliver her speech, this was a defining moment for the monarchy, one that historians will no doubt look back on as an occasion when the era of transition could not have been clearer.
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