Summary
CONSTITUTIONALLY, Britain is, in effect, a republic. Our Queen has reigned since the beginning of February 1952 and in all that time she has been asked to intervene in top-level politics just once. (You might say once is more than enough, and I'd agree. ) This was in 1963, when she asked Alec Douglas Home, who was not then a member of the Commons, to form a government, on the advice of the retiring Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.
The monarch's real job is to symbolise national unity. This symbolic role has become much more important in recent weeks as the institution of parliament has been disgraced. As our politicians are openly derided, and held in the lowest of esteem, the monarchy assumes enhanced importance.See the full content of this document
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Mum's the word for man who would be king
The present monarch has been modest, industrious and assiduous in attending to her ceremonial and symbolic duties, and, apart from the one instance mentioned, she h...
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