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In this authored series he will examine how the monarchy works, delivering a fresh appraisal of an old institution as it embarks on a new chapter in its history Published: 10:00 am, 5 February 2024
The order of succession is the sequence of members of the Royal Family in the order in which they stand in line to the throne. The basis for the succession was determined in the constitutional developments of the seventeenth century, which culminated in the Bill of Rights (1689) and the Act of Settlement (1701).
He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the ...
26 de abr. de 2023 · The report, The British Monarchy, explains what the institution does and how it does it, and places the monarchy in its wider historical and comparative context. It should prove an indispensable guide ahead of the coronation, with more than a dozen leading experts delving into a broad range of issues and topics.
3 de dic. de 2016 · David Cannadine’s work has already shown that, when it comes to domestic British politics in the nineteenth century, Bagehot’s explanation of how monarchy works is practically flawed. Footnote 3 Vernon Bogdanor’s work has also shown, through his study of domestic political history in the twentieth century that Bagehot’s model does not work for that period either.
Monarchs are influential people: their taste is mimicked and their patronage sought. Their political decisions – in times when they had the power to make political decisions – changed the course of society and that, in turns, changed the literature that those societies produced. That’s not the kind of influence that we’re going to look ...
The Civil Service does the practical and administrative work of government. It is co-ordinated and managed by the Prime Minister, in their role as Minister for the Civil Service. Around half of ...
