(08-29-2019, 12:45 AM)classicdrogn Wrote:(08-28-2019, 06:07 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: So, once everything goes to hell in a handbasket, think anyone will complain if Lizzie exercises emergency powers?
Well, one would hope. There's not much point in having a head of state if they can't even tell people they've been acting quite poorly and there shall be no pudding until they sit down and work out a solution.
Unlikely. She is 92 years old and her main concern in the last decades has been the preservation of Royalty as a British institution (reportedly, Diana's death scandal affected so much the royals' image that it seriously made her fear it would be abolished). As such, she is keeping it together by a combination of her personal popularity and by sticking to being a ceremonial rubberstamper (she approved of Boris' proroguing of parliament within hours, without even bothering to talk to the other politicians who had asked for an audience).
So, no matter what happens in Britain she will never accept to take direct control of anything because that would make her responsible for anything that goes wrong.