This vow she kept with unsurpassed devotion. The King told the assembled MPs and peers: “While very young, Her late Majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie at the heart of our nation. It is also where her coffin will lie in state for public viewing from Wednesday. Westminster Hall is the oldest building in parliament, and was where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried, where kings and queens hosted magnificent medieval banquets, and where ceremonial addresses were presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her silver, golden and diamond jubilees. That your traditions are ancient, we see in the construction of this great hall and the reminders of medieval predecessors of the office to which I have been called.” “Parliament is the living and breathing instrument of our democracy.
“I cannot help but feel the weight of history which surrounds us and which reminds us of the vital parliamentary traditions to which members of both houses dedicate yourselves, with such personal commitment for the betterment of us all,” he said in his first visit to Britain’s parliament as monarch.
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