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Charles and Camilla entered the Great Hall from a door behind the stage – not from the foyer, down the centre aisle, and past Thorpe. Now we may know why
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As soon as Lidia Thorpe RSVP’d to the royal reception at Parliament House, it would have been clear to those in charge of protocol that there was probably going to be a protest.
Perhaps this was why the king and queen and their hosts entered the Great Hall from a door behind the stage and not straight ahead from the foyer, down the centre aisle and right past where Thorpe, dressed in a possum-skin cloak, had taken up an early position at the front of a group of waiting MPs.
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