The Queen was ‘adamant’ that Prince Charles delivered her speech at the State Opening of Parliament – as part of the ‘pin sharp’ monarch’s ‘masterplan’ to prepare her son for the throne and ‘soften the edges of transition’.
Her Majesty, 96, was reluctantly forced to pull out of giving the Queen’s Speech for the first time in 59 years on Tuesday due to ‘episodic mobility problems’.
She had only previously missed the event twice in her entire reign – in 1959 and 1963 when she was pregnant with…
