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Page boy faints during Queen's Speech to Parliament
- Published_at:2014-06-04
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:The Telegraph
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- description: The Queen is visibly surprised when a page boy faints in the House of Lords towards the end of her speech at the state opening of Parliament. A page boy standing less than 8ft from the Queen fainted as she read out her speech in the Lords. The boy, who was standing to the right of the Queen, fell to the ground with a 'thud' eight minutes and 53 seconds into the speech as the Duchess of Cornwall looked on with concern. He was carried out of the chamber, while the three remaining boys assisted the Queen as she left the Lords after she completed the speech. The Queen, however, carried on reading without interruption. Mark Pritchard, the Conservative MP, told Politicshome: "As ever, Her Majesty was the consummate professional". The page boys are responsible for carrying the Queen's ceremonial robe and laying it on the steps after she sits down. The four page boys at the ceremony were Hugo Bertie, Viscount Aithrie, Charles Armstrong-Jones and Arthur Chatto. It is not known which of them fainted. Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/telegraph Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
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