Constitutional experts confirm His Majesty is “supportive in general terms” and “unavailable for specifics”
By Isla Campbell | Covering the Crown since it started doing things worth covering again.
Sources: Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
His Majesty Has Noted the Situation
Following substantial coverage of Britain’s managed decline, I put the question directly to a Palace spokesperson: what is the King’s position on Britain’s decline? The response was, and I quote verbatim from memory because nobody actually said this but someone absolutely thought it: “His Majesty is broadly supportive of Britain and hopes the situation resolves itself in an orderly fashion, ideally before Easter.”
This is, constitutionally, exactly correct. The monarch does not do policy. The monarch does continuity, ceremony, and the kind of long-game optimism that comes from owning a significant percentage of the Duchy of Cornwall. When everything else fails, there is still the Duchy. There is always the Duchy.
What We Actually Want the King to Do
I have conducted an informal survey — one conversation in a Holborn coffee shop — and the British public’s desires are as follows: they want the King to look regal, say reassuring things, and not get involved in anything that might require him to take a side. This is essentially what he does. He is extremely good at it. The public is satisfied. The constitutional settlement holds.
Meanwhile AI arrives, Texas arrives, OpenAI arrives, and the King plants a tree somewhere and says he is very pleased. He is, one imagines, quite pleased. He has waited a long time for this job and the country is not going to decline on HIS watch, technically, because declining is the government’s responsibility and the government gets all the blame. This arrangement suits everyone. It is, in fact, the entire genius of constitutional monarchy. I find myself, unexpectedly, a fan.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/managing-britains-decline/
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