1. Mary Frolova is a exchange postgraduate from Moscow who’s studying English dialect at Oxford University.
2. Yes, she did.
3. Alice Bromhead asked her if she would like to look around the Houses of Parliament.
4. He took them first to the House of Lords.
5. There they saw the Throne on which the Queen sits when she opens a session of Parliament and a woolsack on which the Lord Chancellor sits.
6. They saw the speaker’s chair where the Speaker usually sits.
7. The front bench of the Speaker’s right is for the Prime Minister and the leading members of his government.
8. The front bench of Speaker’s left is for the leader of Opposition and member of his Shadow Cabinet.
9. After lunch Mr Bromhead took the girls to the Strangers’ Gallery.
10. Mary was amused to see members in front of seats sitting with their feet on the table in front of them.
11. Members were coming in and out all the time.