Ceremonial role that monarchs play opening the parliament here so that the legislative agenda can proceed and all those bills that the government wants to introduce or 38 that were introduced today can go through. it was decided very late in the day due to mobility problemsmsms that she s suffering that she would have to pull out of that and instead be replaced by her son prince charles and also his heir apparent prince william as well. it does raise questions about just how present the monarch is going to be in the months to come. we ve got the platinum jubilee coming up in less than three weeks time. big celebrations, military parades. gradually we re seeing the monarch remove herself from some of these big occasions, especially with these mobility issues. remember, she s 96 years old and perhaps what some royal watchers have been saying is we re seeing the gradual optics of a transition of power here towards