 if you want pageantry if you want something as a tourist or even of course as a citizen that will just dazzle the eyes the state opening is it because you have this extraordinary spectacle of the king and the queen going in a carriage a horse-drawn carriage from buckingham palace it's probably about i don't know a kilometer and a half the drive from there to westminster where everybody is in robes this extraordinary ceremony that goes back i don't know to the parts of it to the