re: #264 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Elizabeth II has taken her job very seriously, even since her coronation. Charles is a bit of a dolt,

It’s worth remembering Charles spent time as an officer in the Royal Navy and was eventually promoted to be Master and Commander of one of his Mum’s warships before he resigned his commission to start work in the family business. Not something Senator John Sydney McCain III ever achieved, it’s worth noting.

OK, it was a minesweeper (AKA HMS Tupperware) but it was still a RN ship.

Generally Kings and Queens take their jobs seriously. Every day there are state papers to deal with, there are official receptions at home and abroad, laying of wreaths, handing out Maundy Money, opening things, carrying all sorts of protocol droid stuff so that the Prime Minister can get on with doing their job.

The Queen meets with her Prime Minister once a week to discuss the state of the nation. She’s been doing that for sixty years now, since Eisenhower was President of the US. The general opinion of all the PMs she’s met with has been that she has a deep and wide knowledge of international affairs involving the UK and the Commonwealth and their discussions are not pro-forma.

If you want one word to describe a Monarchy like the British one, it’s “continuity”.