While we are not servants to the King and Queen, they do have and maintain diplomatic relationships with many nations, like the United States. The Queen gifted Barack Obama with a rather thoughtful gift when he was elected, to have the thought returned with an iPod and wrong region DVDs, which is probably why he classless ass found himself not invited!
From my understanding of how it works over there, while not officially a part of any political decisions and no official leadership role; they do meet with the Prime Minister and discuss various current events, and I’m sure give their input behind closed doors.
I think he gave the wrong region DVDs to PM Gordon Brown, who was partially blind.
But his taste for gift-giving is appalling. I never want to invite him to a wedding or anything—he’d probably give an autographed photo of himself and a plastic slotted spoon.
Actually watching a Christian wedding being celebrated and applauded, watching hundreds of thousands of people all cheering a young couple on to getting married instead of muslim this or muslim that and it’s ok to live with the guy more bs..... was actually pretty refreshing, IMHO.