Thank you, naturalman, for this complete elucidation of Britain’s constitution as regards the Monarch’s remaining powers. Are you British?
I have joint citizenship of both Australia and the United Kingdom. I was born in and have lived most of my life in Australia, but have spent years in the UK. I’m a retired officer of the Royal Australian Navy who studied as an historian and who now teachers history and political studies and am very interested in the constitutions of the United Kingdom and the various Commonwealth Realms.