Senior members of the family, with theQueen herself inthechair, got together twice a year, during the holidays at Balmoral and Sandringham.
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The first woman to occupy the Speaker's chair was Betty Harvie Anderson (Conservative), appointed deputy chairman of the Ways and Means committee (a deputy speaker) in July 1970, taking thechair later that day during the Queen's Speech debate when she was addressed as 'Mr Deputy Speaker'.
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He points to the 400 year-old ebony chair, where the late Queen Elizabeth, theQueen Mother sat when hosted by his late father in 1959.