<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" id="mwAco" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> misses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_State_Opening_of_Parliament" id="mwAcs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2022 State Opening of Parliament">State Opening of Parliament</a> for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counsellors_of_State" id="mwAcw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Counsellors of State">Counsellors of State</a>.<sup about="#mwt308" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-57"}}' id="cite_ref-57" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_10#cite_note-57" id="mwAc0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 57;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAc4">[57]</span></a></sup>
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