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Nice hyperbole. Western monarchs have no real political power. They're just figureheads whose wealth is continually financed by the state. Which is stupid, but they're not rulers of anything other than their own lavish properties.
Prime ministers have long held weekly audiences with the monarch.
The monarch has the right to review legislation before it is put to parliament.
That mechanism has been used to change laws - in your lifetime, on this side of the century.
These are just three examples from the top of my head.
I have no bone to pick, not knowing anything about the royal family, but do you have any examples of this happening?
I don’t think there are any examples of significant changes to provisional laws, but certainly tweaks to make sure the royal family doesn’t have to keep with the times.
But I meant I wasn’t aware of any cases in which (in our lifetimes or relatively recently) the royal family had put their thumb on the scale of a law and had it modified in a way that changed it for the general citizenry of the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
That’s my point.
> The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents discovered by the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-que...
Expensive yes but their system of government is absolutely superb.
> Switzerland's voting system is unique among modern democratic nations in that Switzerland practices direct democracy in parallel with representative democracy, which is why the Swiss system is known as a semi-direct democracy.[2] Direct democracy allows any citizen to challenge any law approved by the parliament or, at any time, propose a modification of the federal Constitution.
Plus those mountains are bloody beautiful.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...