To: Grand Old Partisan
I thought the queen was the figurehead....
To: bird humming
Her role as figurehead includes being a nominal Head of State. BTW, the last time a British monarch issued a commmand was in 1944, when at the request of the Admiralty King George VI ordered Winston Churchil not to participate in the D-Day landings as an off-shore observer.
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