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wearing the insignia of the Order Of Canada and standing beside the Canadian Flag .]] This makes the Monarch Of The United Kingdom also Monarch of
Additionally, under the 1981 Cook Islands Constitution, the Queen in right of New Zealand is head of state, but any change in the succession made by New Zealand would have no effect in the Cook Islands unless separately ratified there. Royal succession is governed by the English Act Of Settlement of 1701 , which is part of constitutional law of the Commonwealth Realm countries. Though the Queen's constitutional powers are virtually identical in each Realm, she does not usually act as political Head of State except in the UK, nor does she commonly perform ceremonial duties, except on occasions of significant historical or political importance. This results from the fact that she resides in the UK, even though she usually visits the other major Commonwealth Realms at least once every five or six years. Day-to-day political and ceremonial duties are instead performed in each Realm by a Governor-General who serves as the Queen's representative. Outside the United Kingdom , the Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister of each Realm or, in the cases of Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, by parliamentary vote, appoints a Governor-General to act as her vice-regal representative during her absence. She is also represented by a Governor in each State of Australia , and by a Lieutenant-Governor in each Province of Canada . These officials exercise almost all the powers of the Constitutional Monarch with mostly symbolic, Figurehead duties, but they also have reserve powers, called the Royal Prerogative . Nominally, the Governor-General is appointed by the Queen. SEE ALSO |