Declining her traditional horse-drawn carriage, keeping the imperial crown beside her rather than atop her head and swapping the royal robes for a blue dress, the queen pointedly toned down the pomp this year.
Buckingham Palace said Philip, 96, was hospitalized as a precaution for treatment of an infection.
The vote on the Queen's Speech takes place on June 29 - the same day as the deadline for agreement in the Stormont talks.
Eight of 27 bills outlined in the speech deal with the complex process of Brexit.
"However the numbers in Parliament itself has forced Mrs May to dump the dementia tax - instead, talking obliquely about a social care consultation; to drop her much vaunted proposals for grammar schools; to forget any thoughts of scrapping free school lunches; and to lose that old Conservative favourite bringing back fox-hunting".
Donald Trump's state visit to Britain appears to have been postponed, as it has been left out of the Queen's Speech.
May's own position has been called into question ever since her decision to call a snap election.
Since talks began with the DUP nearly two weeks ago in the chaos following May's unexpected loss of her majority, the negotiations have followed an uncertain course with conflicting signals about whether a deal would be struck. MPs will be asked to support the speech in a vote next week - and opposition parties are likely to table a series of amendments. According to a new survey, almost half of LGBTQ people that reside in London say that they are victims of a hate crime, while over 68% say that they worry about becoming victims in the future.
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And she apologised in the House of Commons for the "failure" of both national and local government to provide survivors of the west London blaze with the support they needed.
The Queen's Speech in 2013 made no mention of South Korean President Park Geun-hye's state visit.
"A threadbare legislative program from a government that has lost its majority and apparently run out of ideas altogether", he told parliament. Both ceremonies take weeks of preparation and planning, and it was deemed too hard to prepare for two such events so close together.
The Queen's Speech lacked the usual level of pomp and pageantry, with the Queen ditching her traditional red velvet Robe of State and crown for a blue day dress and hat, and swapping her horse-drawn carriage for a vehicle.
It was carried into the ceremony by an officer of state and placed on a stand in front of the Queen.
Traditionally all planned state visits for the period covered by the speech are listed by the Queen in advance.
"Get your skates on", he shouted, according to The Independent, "the first race is half past two".
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