Their Majesties will return from their tour of Canada and the United States aboard the Canadian Pacific s. Empress of Britain. The King lest night appointed a Council of State to act in his absence.
The five Counsellors are as follows:—The Queen, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Kent, the Princess Royal, end Princess Arthur of Connaught.
The inclusion of the Queen is necessary under the terms of the Regency Act of 1937, which states that the "consort of the King or Queen must be one of the Counsellers of State appointed in the Sovereign's absence from the country. or during the Sovereign's illness
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