 Similarly when Harriet Harman was appointed as Solicitor General she was made a QC.Queen's Counsel are retained in several Commonwealth realms where Queen Elizabeth II is head of state.The Commonwealth of Australia at the federal level, and most state and territory governments, began in 1994 to replace the title of Queen's Counsel and appointment by letters patent with the title Senior Counsel (SC) as an honorific conferred by the legal profession.