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This is not true. The Monarchy directly intervenes in government without transparency or accountability.
The link redirects to a login page, do you happen to have one without, or be able to paste the text please?
Changed it to the oc source. Here is an archive as well
Lovely thank you.
That is horrific to read though, I appreciate the correction. I knew there was some form of consent granted in a "you've already decided this, I'm consenting for show only" kind of way but this is exactly the kind of abuse that a constitutional monarchy is supposed to avoid.
Here's an example: Ministers sought Charles’s consent to pass conservation laws affecting his business
ultimately a big problem with constitutional monarchy of any kind is it's still monarchy. it's hard to square the democratic values, fairness, or equality that is associated with liberal democracy with having a totally unelected institution whose claim to that position is derived almost invariably from religious legitimacy and being the "right" family. (and conversely, it's very easy for a monarchy to undermine democratic processes and take more power for itself than it ought to have)