Updated: May 11, 2021, 5:06 pm The Queen on the solitary throne (Chris Jackson/PA) Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The consort’s throne was missing from the State Opening of Parliament in the wake of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh and amid the pandemic. In the House of Lords, a single ornate Sovereign’s Throne stood under the gold canopy for the Queen during Tuesday’s ceremony. In previous years, there was a pair of thrones where Philip, before his retirement, sat next to the monarch during the grand ceremonial occasion over the many decades of his public service.