Jeremy Corbyn will not have to kneel for the Queen when he is sworn into Privy Council next week

Jeremy Corbyn will not have to kneel in front of the Queen but may have to kiss her hand when he is sworn into the Privy Council next week, The Telegraph can disclose.

The Labour leader is preparing to go to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for the ceremony which will allow him to become a member of the centuries old institution.

One Westminster source said the Queen “does not want a constitutional crisis” by insisting on his genuflection, adding that the Queen accepts that “Jeremy’s republicanism is well known”.

Joining the Privy Council will mean that Mr Corbyn is allowed to style himself “right honourable” by other MPs in the House of Commons, and be given briefings on areas of national security.

Mr Corbyn will meet the Queen three times over the next five days, starting with the Royal British Legion’s Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night.

The pair will then be together at the Cenotaph in Whitehall for the Act of Remembrance on Sunday morning to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Private talks between the Palace and Mr Corbyn’s office have established that the Labour leader will not have to kneel as part of the ceremony.

Buckingham Palace had agreed to be “accommodating” about Mr Corbyn’s long-held republicanism at the ceremony on November 11, sources said.

He might hop from stool to stool, before brushing his lips across her hand, copying an example set by former Labour deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott when he became a Privy Council.

However it is likely that Mr Corbyn will have to brush his lips across the Queen’s hands, as it is seen as part of the ceremony to induct new members of the Privy Council.

A royal source said: “The Queen is not someone who stands on ceremony, she wants people to feel comfortable but the Privy Council is an important mechanism and that is why it is important that he is there.”

Mr Corbyn was heavily criticised for deciding not to attend last month’s meeting of the Privy Council, when he would have been sworn in, and preferring to go on a mini-break in Scotland instead.

Pressed in September on whether he would kneel in front of the monarch athe ceremony, Mr Corbyn said: "I didn't know that was involved actually. So we'll have to find out about it, OK?"

He added: "It's the first I've heard about it and I want to discuss that with colleagues, the whole process." He later refused to say three times if he would kneel.

However Buckingham Palace was understanding about the decision. The royal source said: “He has always acknowledged that he had to be there in person and wanted to be there in person.”

David Rogers, a leading expert on the Privy Council, said: “It sounds like the Establishment has triumphed again. He has recognised that in order to be effective he will have to deal with the Establishment, and the best way of dealing with the Establishment is to become, even a very minor, part of it.”

Mr Rogers – author of By Royal Appointment – Tales from the Privy Council published last month – said kissing the monarch’s hand was an integral part of the ceremony.

Previous officials at the Council had previously ruled that “if you don’t kiss the hand, the oath is not valid” under ancient usage laws.

However Mr Rogers admitted that ultimately the Queen could waive the requirement, saying: “If a Monarch makes a decision about their Privy Council then that will stand.”

Last month the office of the Privy Council had to tell Parliament to strip Mr Corbyn of his “Right Honourable” status after Number 10 wrongly implied the Labour leader had joined the Privy Council.

Mr Corbyn had been wrongly described on Parliament’s website as “Right Honourable”, which denotes membership of the centuries-old Privy Council, as well as being given the title by David Cameron at their first Prime Minister's Questions together in September.

The confusion was caused by a statement on the Number 10 website in September which suggested Mr Corbyn had joined the Privy Council ahead of any swearing in ceremony.

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