UK government focuses on cost of living crisis in Queen’s Speech overshadowed by her absence
Britain’s Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, arrives at the Sovereign’s Entrance of the House of Lords for the State Opening of Parliament at the Houses of Parliament, in London, on May 10, 2022. – The 96-year-old monarch, who usually presides over the pomp-filled event and reads out her government’s legislative programme from a gilded throne in the House of Lords, will skip the annual showpiece on her doctors’ advice. (Photo by Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS JACKSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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LONDON — The U.K. government on Tuesday vowed to focus on economic growth in order to address the country’s spiraling cost of living crisis, in a Queen’s Speech delivered by the monarch’s son and first in line to the throne, Prince Charles.
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