Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, delivered the Queen’s Speech to parliament after the Queen pulled out of the ceremony for the first time since 1963, due to what Buckingham Palace called “episodic mobility problems”.
He read out the speech, essentially a list of government aims for the parliamentary year, which is written for the monarch by government officials.
A mammoth 38 parliamentary bills are contained in the Queen’s Speech, of which 27 apply in whole or part of Scotland.
