The seating arrangements in Westminster Hall as the Queen addressed parliament drew a lot of comment on Tuesday; Ed Miliband's wife Justine next to Nick Clegg, David Cameron squeezed in next to the Labour leader.
But it was the positioning of the speaker's wife, Sally Bercow, which drew the most attention, with the 42-year-old betwixt Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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Sally's seat between the two former PMs, who famously don't get on, delighted politicos, who took to Twitter to express their surprise that the Labour-supporting speaker's wife was acted as a "buffer" between the two men.
See below for a slideshow of some of the best reaction to the unusual threesome.