She owns all the “unmarked, mute” swans in England and can drive without a license. But what does a crown get you these days? The arcane power of Queen Elizabeth, explained
Queen Elizabeth II can’t throw everyone who annoys her into the Tower of London. But there’s plenty she canQueen Elizabeth II’s formal and largely theoretical powers have gotten attention, thanks to the Brexit antics of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a truly cursed string of words. He recently called for Parliament to be “prorogued,” or temporarily suspended, as a way of running out the clock and making a “no deal” path out of the EU more likely.
In this, the first in a series of videos in which I attempt to explain the arcane, vaguely comical, mostly vestigial, world of the royals, I break down the difference between the Queen’s technical power—the power she can actually use if she wants “the Firm” to keep operating.
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