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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Elon Musk versus the intelligence community
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 19:19:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Rhino  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>On 2025-05-28 1:56 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>> Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:18:48 -0400, Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net>:
>> 
>>>> No, Queen Elizabeth gave Anne the designation Princess Royal
>>>> in honor of her charity work. She's still the most active
>>>> royal in that regard with endless personal appearances and
>>>> such.
>> 
>>> I will never forget the tempest in a teapot (I was in Hong Kong and
>>> read about it in the South China Morning Post - which is the largest
>>> English language HK newspaper) when her son was asked to open a
>>> cricket club in Hong Kong. Apparently some club members objected to
>>> "having a royal flown in" until somebody asked him directly how he got
>>> there. He said "on the MTR of course" (that's the name of the Hong
>>> Kong Mass Transit Railway system - aka 'the subway') and told them
>>> that Will and Harry are the only ones who don't have to work "in day
>>> jobs" - that he appreciates being invited to Royal weddings and other
>>> events but that the only thing he's legally entitled to is for him and
>>> his children to be married at the chapel of Westminster Abbey (which
>>> is a very nice church the size of a regular local church not the size
>>> of a cathedral)
>> 
>> It's a little more than that. Specific relatives of the monarch are the
>> only ones subject to royal command in the UK with regard to marriage
>> and divorce. They certainly would not be permitted to marry a
>> non-Anglican without a huge exception being made. Laws have had to be
>> changed although they might have adequate flexibility in law with royal
>> assent.
>> 
>As I understand it, the last set of reforms enabled Royals to marry 
>Catholics without difficulty for the first time since Henry VIII, 
>although there were still *some* rules. For instance, the King or Queen 
>Regnant (Queen Elizabeth II was a Queen Regnant but Queen Camilla is 
>just a Queen Consort) still have to be members of the Church of England 
>but their spouses don't need to be.
>
>I'm not sure what would happen if a King or Queen Regnant left the 
>Church of England (or got excommunicated) or converted to a different 
>religion entirely.

excommunicate herself?

>> Very little royal perogative remains, but the monarch retains control of
>> certain aspect of the royal family.
>> 
>>> He no longer works in London and is still in the banking business but
>>> not the Royal Bank of Scotland (which by US standards is quite a large
>>> bank)
>> 
>> Prior to leaving the EU, London had major money center banks, especially
>> RBS.
>
>
>-- 
>Rhino