* Queen's Speech at inauguration of seventh General Synod

His last speech in the House of Commons, in the Debate of the 3 November 1959 on the Queen's Speech, in which Bevan referred to the difficulties of persuading the electorate to support a policy which would make them less well-off in the short term but more prosperous in the long term, was quoted extensively in subsequent years.

He was chosen by Channel 4 to deliver the first " Alternative Christmas Speech ", a counterpoint to the Queen's Christmas speech, in 1993.

The Legislation committee allocates time for government bills to be considered in Parliament, coordinates the writing and handling of these bills in general, and is responsible for the Queen's Speech.

On 25 May 2010, during the Queen's Speech debate, Kaufman accused the Liberal Democrat candidate for his constituency during the 2010 election, Qassim Afzal, of running " an anti-Semitic, and personally anti-Semitic, election campaign " in Manchester Gorton.

In the British Parliament, a no-confidence motion generally first appears as an early day motion, although the vote on the Queen's Speech also constitutes a confidence motion.

In the United Kingdom, where the practice originated, Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, also known as the Gracious Address or, less formally, as the Queen's Speech, is typically read by the reigning sovereign at the State Opening of Parliament ; this occurs annually in May — prior to the Fixed Term Parliament Act 2011, the State Opening usually occurred in November or December — or soon after a general election.

* Queen's Speech in the UK Parliament 2009-BBC

* Queen's Speech in the UK Parliament 2008-BBC

* Queen's Speech in the UK Parliament 2007-BBC

* Queen's Speech in the UK Parliament 2006-BBC

* Queen's Speech in the UK Parliament 2005-BBC

The Lord Chancellor ( The Viscount Kilmuir in 1959, The Lord Dilhorne in 1963 ) read the Queen's Speech on those occasions.

The Queen's Speech is delivered from the throne in the House of Lords.

The Queen reads a prepared speech, known as the " Speech from the Throne " or the " Queen's Speech ", outlining her Government's agenda for the coming year.

Traditionally, the members of both Houses of Parliament listen to the Queen's Speech respectfully, neither applauding nor showing dissent towards the speech's contents before it is debated in each House.

Skinner has traditionally cracked jokes, usually about the Royal Family, during the annual Queen's Speech ceremony.

* In 1997, he said to Black Rod " Do you want to borrow a Queen's Speech?

He has never been a member of an All-Party Parliamentary Group ; does not eat alongside parliamentary colleagues in the Commons dining room ; does not take trips or holidays ' paid for ' by others ; never drinks in the Commons Bar ; and stays in the House of Commons during the Queen's Speech at the State Opening of Parliament, as he advocates outright abolition of the House of Lords.

The creation of Ofcom was announced in the Queen's Speech to the UK parliament in June 2001.

She was selected to second the Queen's Speech debate in November 2002, where she also discussed her views on genocide and a trip to Rwanda.

" from Conservative peers ; such outbursts were unprecedented, for the Queen's Speech is traditionally heard by a silent Parliament.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

Acadia began as an extension of Horton Academy ( 1828 ), which was founded in Horton, Nova Scotia, by Baptists from Nova Scotia and Queen's College ( 1838 ).

Many pop songs are used as anthems, such as Queen's " We Are the Champions ", which is commonly used as a sports anthem.

To make the show more cost-effective, it was also shot with virtually no outdoor scenes ( in contrast to the first series which was shot largely on location ) and several frequently used indoor sets, such as the Queen's throne room and Blackadder's front room.

The latter trip was extremely rainy, which led Sir James Clark, the Queen's physician, to recommend Deeside for its more healthy climate.

There are early mystery novels in which a police force attempts to contend with the type of criminal known in the 1920s as a homicidal maniac, such as a few of the early novels of Philip Macdonald and Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails.

In June Oxford wrote to Burghley reminding him that he made an agreement with Elizabeth to relinquish his claim to the Forest of Essex for three reasons, one of which was the Queen's reluctance to punish Skinner's felony, which had caused Oxford to forfeit £ 20, 000 in bonds and statutes.

In the north and south walls of the Queen's Chamber there are shafts, which unlike those in the King's Chamber that immediately slope upwards, are horizontal for around before sloping upwards.

The shafts in the Queen's Chamber were explored in 1992 by the German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink using a crawler robot of his own design which he called " Upuaut 2 ".

* Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest ; celebrated on the second Monday in June.

Simcoe wrote a book on his experiences with the Rangers, titled A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers from the end of the year 1777 to the conclusion of the late American War, which was published in 1787.

A Patriotic Politics for Canada, Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen's University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-7735-2596-3, which applies that philosophy to the Canadian case.

The primary role of the police in Britain was keeping the Queen's Peace, which continues into the present day.

In 1181, Philip began a war with Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders over the Vermandois, which King Philip claimed as his Queen's dowry, which the Count was unwilling to give up.

To the rear of the building is the " Queen's Garden " which includes a collection of plants believed to have medicinal qualities.

Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.

In 1591 he secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, without the Queen's permission, for which he and his wife were sent to the Tower of London.

The present incarnation of the position emerged with Canadian Confederation and the British North America Act in 1867, which defined the viceregal office as the " Governor General acting by and with the Advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

Her affair with Peter Townsend and the Queen's dealing with this was the subject of the first episode of the Channel 4 Docudrama The Queen in which she was portrayed by Katie McGrath

* Since 1958, the Queen's Baton Relay has taken place, in which athletes carry a baton from Buckingham Palace to the games opening ceremony.

Colour guards in the artillery units are technically the lead gun's crew and leader ( except in the Honourable Artillery Company which uses both guns and Colours ) and there are no colour guards in the rifle regiments ( nowadays The Rifles ), the Royal Gurkha Rifles ( which use the Queen's Truncheon ) and in the Royal Hospital in Chelsea.