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Death of the Queen and King Charles’s accession – live updates
Lord McFall, the Lord Speaker (Speaker in the House of Lords), is speaking now. (He is John McFall, the former Labour MP.)
McFall welcomes the King to Westminster, and says his mother visited parliament many times in her long life of dedicated public service.
Our late Majesty’s joyous unstinting and reassuring presence across the years made it difficult to contemplate that her long and inspiring reign of deep and unparalleled devotion would ever end.
But it has ended, only a few months after we celebrated her late Majesty’s historic platinum jubilee.