People were saying a Pope would not abdicate until Benedict did.
The issue isn't about abdication though, it was the context you suggested which is totally ASB.
People were saying a Pope would not abdicate until Benedict did.
People were saying a Pope would not abdicate until Benedict did.
The issue isn't about abdication though, it was the context you suggested which is totally ASB.
As mentioned, there is no way the present Queen is going to abdicate voluntarily.
Is, however, any plausible way that you could get an involuntary abdication? Basically via some sort of Francis Urquhart type of PM/party basically going against her on some major issue and winning, forcing her out and putting Charlie in? ((I can't personally - I think if some barking mad PM tried some sort of "Rounding up of all undesirables and putting them in boncetration* camps Act" - I think she'd just 'coup' them first.))
*With thanks to Monty Python and the people of Minehead, Devon.
As for a regency, whereas we may well get a de facto one as she heads into her nineties (Charles already does an awful lot of the job) we are very unlikely to see a formal one. The reason is straightforward enough - the Queen is head of state of IIRC 19 countries and they would all need to agree. An idea of how hard this would be can be seen in the case of changing the succession to the throne to get rid of male preference primogeniture and pass the succession to the eldest child regardless of gender. This was agreed in Perth in 2011 but didn't actually come into force until earlier this year because of the difficulty of coordinating 19 different legislatures (IIRC Jamaica was the last) - four years for something everybody agreed on. A regency would be harder.
Is, however, any plausible way that you could get an involuntary abdication? Basically via some sort of Francis Urquhart type of PM/party basically going against her on some major issue and winning, forcing her out and putting Charlie in? ((I can't personally - I think if some barking mad PM tried some sort of "Rounding up of all undesirables and putting them in boncetration* camps Act" - I think she'd just 'coup' them first.))
As mentioned, there is no way the present Queen is going to abdicate voluntarily.
Is, however, any plausible way that you could get an involuntary abdication? Basically via some sort of Francis Urquhart type of PM/party basically going against her on some major issue and winning, forcing her out and putting Charlie in? ((I can't personally - I think if some barking mad PM tried some sort of "Rounding up of all undesirables and putting them in boncetration* camps Act" - I think she'd just 'coup' them first.))
*With thanks to Monty Python and the people of Minehead, Devon.
Boncentration bamps, actually. Didn't you go to king's bollege, bambridge?
As mentioned, there is no way the present Queen is going to abdicate voluntarily.
Is, however, any plausible way that you could get an involuntary abdication? Basically via some sort of Francis Urquhart type of PM/party basically going against her on some major issue and winning, forcing her out and putting Charlie in? ((I can't personally - I think if some barking mad PM tried some sort of "Rounding up of all undesirables and putting them in boncetration* camps Act" - I think she'd just 'coup' them first.))
*With thanks to Monty Python and the people of Minehead, Devon.
As mentioned, there is no way the present Queen is going to abdicate voluntarily.
Is, however, any plausible way that you could get an involuntary abdication? Basically via some sort of Francis Urquhart type of PM/party basically going against her on some major issue and winning, forcing her out and putting Charlie in? ((I can't personally - I think if some barking mad PM tried some sort of "Rounding up of all undesirables and putting them in boncetration* camps Act" - I think she'd just 'coup' them first.))
*With thanks to Monty Python and the people of Minehead, Devon.
Constitutionally, parliament has power over the succession and the monarchy. IIRC the Hanoverians were brought to power by skipping over a couple of dozen rightful claimants who all happened to be Catholic. And then of course was the Glorious Revolution. There wouldn't need to be any melodramatic machinations, if Parliament wanted Liz to cease being Queen, then she would cease being Queen.
So, if she f'ed up badly enough, then sure. But that doesn't sound like the Queen we all know and love to varying degrees.