Queen's pleasure

9.4The signification of the Queen's pleasure is the form employed for communicating to Parliament the Queen's wishes with regard to certain matters which are mostly of a formal and regularly recurrent nature and connected with the procedure of Parliament. Thus, the Queen's pleasure is signified at the commencement of each Parliament, by the Lords Member (a Minister of the Crown) who presides over the Royal Commission, that the Commons should elect a Speaker (see para 8.17 ); and when a vacancy in the office of Speaker occurs in the course of a Parliament, a communication of the same nature is made by a Minister in the House (see para 8.22 ). Her Majesty's pleasure is also signified for the attendance of the Commons in the House of Lords at the times which she appoints; and concerning matters personally affecting the interests of the royal family.1 At the end of a session, also, the royal pleasure is signified, by the presiding Commissioner, that Parliament should be prorogued.

Although not using the same terminology, the royal approbation of the Speaker elect, signified by the presiding Commissioner, may be viewed as within this category.