This year we have already seen the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams deliver the "Motion for an Humble Address on the occasion of Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee" in the House of Lords.
Worn by Marie de Medici during her 1610 coronation as the queen of France, it later passed on to the House of Orange-Nassau, now the Dutch royal family, and then to the collection of the queen of England before arriving in Prussia in 1702.
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There the backdrop is older still: the Queen's House of 1617-37 by Renaissance master architect Inigo Jones.
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Lord Grocott, who was chief whip in the Lords from 2002-08, under the last Labour government, spoke as peers resumed debate on the Queen's Speech on 14 May 2012, with the House of Lords Reform Bill receiving the lion's share of attention.
In 1884, the house received the Royal Warrant as purveyors of champagne to Queen Victoria.
The final bill was confirmed in the Queen's Speech of 9 May 2012 and was introduced to the House of Lords on 28 May 2012.
U.S. President Barack Obama conveyed the "heartfelt congratulations of the American people" in a video message posted on the White House website that paid tribute to the queen's enduring reign.
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Queen Beatrix is the sixth monarch from the House of Orange-Nassau, which has ruled the Netherlands since the early 19th Century.
The same year, Marconi installed radio equipment on Queen Victoria's Royal Yacht so that the Queen, who was staying at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, could communicate with the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) who was convalescing on board.
The Queen's trip to Mrs McCarron's house was just the "first of her more intimate meet-the-people visits", The Times reported.
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