There's three layers to the power the British monarch has:
1. They wield huge amounts of power. They can kill laws by withholding royal assent, they can dismiss Parliament, they can appoint the Prime Minister, and they can do anything else within the royal prerogative. They are sovereign.
2. They wield little power. They only act within the bounds of tradition, and on the advice of a Prime Minister selected by the House of Commons. The last one who tried to press the matter ended up shorter by a head.
3. They wield power incommensurate with the United Kingdom being a polity run by a responsible government. They're immensely wealthy, they have the ear of every politician in the United Kingdom and beyond, and they generally wield soft power far beyond what an unelected position ought to have.
Everyone here knows 1 is wrong, although I have met some silly buggers... Pretending we're at 2 when most people realize the import of 3 is similarly not going to work.
1. They wield huge amounts of power. They can kill laws by withholding royal assent, they can dismiss Parliament, they can appoint the Prime Minister, and they can do anything else within the royal prerogative. They are sovereign.
2. They wield little power. They only act within the bounds of tradition, and on the advice of a Prime Minister selected by the House of Commons. The last one who tried to press the matter ended up shorter by a head.
3. They wield power incommensurate with the United Kingdom being a polity run by a responsible government. They're immensely wealthy, they have the ear of every politician in the United Kingdom and beyond, and they generally wield soft power far beyond what an unelected position ought to have.
Everyone here knows 1 is wrong, although I have met some silly buggers... Pretending we're at 2 when most people realize the import of 3 is similarly not going to work.