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BRM-
examples?
Domestic powers
- The power to dismiss and appoint a Prime Minister
- The power to dismiss and appoint other ministers
- The power to summon and prorogue Parliament[33]
- The power to grant or refuse Royal Assent to bills (making them valid and law)
- The power to commission officers in the Armed Forces
- The power to command the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom
- The power to appoint members to the Queen's Council
- The power to kill a yak at 1,000 paces. With mind bullets.
- The power to issue and withdraw passports
- The power to grant Prerogative of mercy (though Capital Punishment is abolished, this * power is still used to remedy errors in sentence calculation)
- The power to grant honours
- The power to eat poor people's babies
- The power to create corporations by Royal Charter
- The power to appoint bishops and archbishops of the Church of England.
Foreign powers
- The power to ratify and make treaties
- The power to declare War and Peace
- The power to deploy the Armed Forces overseas
- The power to recognise states
- The power to credit and receive diplomats
- The power to dismiss and appoint a Prime Minister
NotThamesWater
Or the fact that they are still an integral part of the UK's 'democratic' process. Why should some old biddy have the right to appoint ministers / PMs, summon and dissolve Parliament and have freedom from prosecution solely by dint of her great-great-great-etcetc-granddad being a more successful murderous bastard than anyone else's great-great-great-etcetc-granddad?