Her maj is beginning to make sounds like she is either about to abdicate or fall off the perch.
For the very first time she is asking all heads of Commonwealth countries to except Bonny Prince Charles as our next Head of State.
this is fairly likely to be the Queen's last CHOGM and probably won't attend the next gathering in Malaysia.
BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43840710?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central)
It is her 92nd birthday today. Retirement or perch dropping is inevitable. Good on her for being in such good health and making it this far.
Maybe she was upset by this event: https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/culture/queen-corgi-willow-died-16273
Quote from: 'Nevol' pid='114952' dateline='1524275523'Maybe she was upset by this event: https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/culture/queen-corgi-willow-died-16273
Will Royal Mint put out a special corgi coin?
Quote from: 'kchan1111' pid='114958' dateline='1524319267'Will Royal Mint put out a special corgi coin?
Wouldn't surprise me - they seem to putting out commemoratives for every other thing these days (they even copied the A to Z coins).
The Queen won't ever retire, because that would be a violation of the oath she made when she was crowned. Rather, she'll just delegate all her duties to someone else, like Prince Charles, in order to ease the workload. Unfortunately, the British Monarchy treats retirement like abdication, so the Queen could never retire without destroying her reputation. The Queen may be old, but she isn't stupid. After 66 years' worth of service, she certainly wouldn't want it to end on a sour note. Perhaps GOLDOC should take a leaf out of her book.
Quotethe oath she made when she was crowned
Hmmm, I think that was part of a speech some years before she became Queen, on her 21st birthday in 1947 I believe. :winkextra:
The Queen has publicly stated in the past that she would never voluntarily abdicate as is the fashion in some other European monarchies, but as it turns out, she doesn't have to. Following the fracas in the late 1700s when King George III became mentally sand physically unfit to rule but refused to abdicate, Parliament has passed various Regency Acts which allow for the smooth transition of power in such circumstances to an "acting Monarch", the Regent.
Under the Regency Act of 1937, the Queen can have her powers removed if and when she is physically or mentally incapable of exercising them, in which case a Regent is appointed to rule in her place until the Queen actually passes away (or the Queen recovers from whatever incapacitated her). Under the Act, the Regent is the next in line to the throne (in this case, Prince Charles) and five people have the power to declare the Queen unfit to rule and the need to appoint a Regent, either temporarily or permanently: the monarch's spouse, the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Chief Justice of England and the Master of the Rolls.