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Speaker 1: My Lords and members of the House of Commons. I

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Speaker 1: am deeply grateful for the addresses of condolence by the

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Speaker 1: House of Lords and the House of Commons, which so

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Speaker 1: touchingly encompass what our late Sovereign, my beloved mother the Queen,

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Speaker 1: meant to us all. As Shakespeare says of the earlier

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Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth, she was a patent to all princes. Livy.

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Speaker 1: As I stand before you to day, I cannot help

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Speaker 1: but feel the weight of history which surrounds us, and

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Speaker 1: which reminds us of the vital parliamentary traditions to which

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Speaker 1: members of both houses dedicate yourselves with such personal commitment

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Speaker 1: for the betterment of us. All parlor is the living

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Speaker 1: and breathing instrument of our democracy. That your traditions are ancient,

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Speaker 1: we see in the construction of this great hall, and

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Speaker 1: the reminders of medieval predecessors, of the office to which

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Speaker 1: I have been called, and the tangible connections to my

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Speaker 1: darling late mother. We see all around us, from the

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Speaker 1: fountain in New Palace Yard, which commemorates the late queen

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Speaker 1: Silver Jubilee, to the sundial in Old Palace Yard for

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Speaker 1: the Golden Jubilee. The magnificent stained glass window before me

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Speaker 1: for the Diamond Jubilee, and so poignantly and yet to

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Speaker 1: be formerly unveiled, your most generous gift to her Late

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Speaker 1: Majesty to mark the unprecedented Platinum Jubilee which we celebrated

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Speaker 1: only three months ago with such joyful hearts. The great

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Speaker 1: Bell of Big Ben, one of the most powerful symbols

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Speaker 1: of our nation throughout the world, and housed within the

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Tower, also named for my mother's Diamond Jubilee, will

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Speaker 1: mark the passage of the Late Queen's progress from Buckingham

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Speaker 1: Palace to this Parliament on Wednesday, My Lords and Members

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Speaker 1: of the House of Commons, we gather today in remembrance

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Speaker 1: of the remarkable span of the Queen's dedicated service to

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Speaker 1: her nations and peoples. While very young, her Late Majesty

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Speaker 1: pledged herself to serve her country and her people and

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Speaker 1: to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie

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Speaker 1: at the heart of our nation. This vow she kept

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Speaker 1: with unsurpassed devotion. She set an example of selfless duty, which,

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Speaker 1: with God's help and your counsels, I am resolved faithfully

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Speaker 1: to follow