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THE Queen steps out today for her first royal engagement in seven months as she meets the heroes of the poisoning Salisbury Novichok
The 94-year-old monarch will be joined by her grandson, Prince William, 38, as they head to Wiltshire to speak to the hero staff involved in identifying the deadly nerve agent in Salisbury
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia fought for their lives in March 2018, with Salisbury locked out as authorities desperately tried to remove the dangerous substance used to poison them
And today, the Queen – who arrived by helicopter – will meet with the hero staff who were involved in identifying the deadly nerve agent and thoroughly clarifying the attack
This is the first engagement in front of a royal palace for the Queen since the Commonwealth ceremony at Westminster Abbey on March 9
She will unveil a plaque to open the £ 35million Energy Analysis Center at the High Security Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
Her Majesty should also speak to scientists who are finding ways to beat the Covid-19 pandemic by deploying microbiologists to NHS hospitals to increase testing capacity
The Queen and Prince William, who occupy the second row to the throne, will then be offered a private tour of the Energy Vault, where they saw an exhibit of weapons and tactics used in counterintelligence
William presented Firmin’s sword of peace, presented to the armed forces which improve community relations, to the 102 Logistics Brigade for their work of cleaning up the Novichok attack on Salisbury two years ago
The royal engagement comes as the Queen returned to Windsor Castle earlier this month and returns to work at Buckingham Palace
Teams of 24 key collaborators worked three weeks and three weeks off to protect the monarch from Covid-19
Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, 69, and his daughter Yulia Skripal, 36, were poisoned in an attack in Novichok in March 2018
The deadly poison was sprayed on their doorknob and they collapsed on a park bench several hours later
Sgt Nick Bailey was also rushed to hospital after being infected during a search of their home
Three and a half months later, Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after she and her boyfriend Charlie Rowley, 46, unwittingly found the deadly nerve agent in a bottle of perfume
Russian GRU agents Anatoliy Chepiga, 41, and Alexander Mishkin, 41, were later named as the suspected killers
Although the Queen had private engagements inside Windsor Castle during the pandemic and spent a month on vacation at Balmoral, this was the first time she had participated in an engagement outside of a palace since March 9
The center tested the 48 staff who approached the royal family for Covid-19 before the visit could take place
It provides the UK with a world-class science and engineering facility to defend the nation against explosives
The 7,283 m2 T-shaped building is set over three levels, with two floors of chemistry laboratories, workshops, offices, meeting rooms and state-of-the-art wellness facilities. technology
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