Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings.

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The message was recorded in Buckingham Palace's white drawing room with the Queen wearing a fine silk tulle gown by Angela Kelly.

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The Silk report isn't in the Queen's Speech because ministers have yet to agree a formal response, which, MPs were told today, would be published within the next few weeks.

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Men who turn down proposals on this day are to give women silk gowns as per the law passed by Queen Margaret of Scotland.

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Plaid Cymru have made the lack of a UK government response to the first Silk report the focus of their opposition to the Queen's Speech and say they will push their amendment to a vote tonight in a device designed to highlight Labour divisions over the assembly's powers.

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