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Definition: An Accession Council – formed of all Privy Counsellors, Great Officers of State, the Lord Mayor and City Civic party, Realm High Commissioners and certain senior civil servants – is usually convened within 24 hours of the death of a Sovereign and is customarily held at St James’s Palace.
