[Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)]

I know Lilibet swears in PMs just like her predecessors have the past 300 hundred years (literally!), but is it not all ceremonial, or dare I say superfluous?

[evan_au]

I get the impression that the USA really likes Kings and Queens, Princes & Princesses (and their intrigues).

Maybe they have the best of both worlds - having kicked out the British troops a couple of centuries ago, they can now watch all the intrigues, without actually paying for them...

[Petrochemicals]

I get the impression that the USA really likes Kings and Queens, Princes & Princesses (and their intrigues).

Maybe they have the best of both worlds - having kicked out the British troops a couple of centuries ago, they can now watch all the intrigues, without actually paying for them...

I think really they wish to rejoin.

[alancalverd]

Constitutionally, the monarch has no political influence. She is bound to appoint whoever can command a working majority in the House of Commons, to form a government. Royalty avoids anything that might be interpreted as political comment in public. Unlike the elected presidents of developing nations, the monarch's job is to represent everyone, not just the bankers or religious perverts who ran his election campaign.

In purely legal terms, the Queen is entitled to vote if she wanted to as it would be against Article 39 of the European Union’s Charter Of Fundamental Rights to stop her – but Parliament guidelines state it is considered unconstitutional for the Monarch or their family to vote in an election.

The official Royal website states that the Head of State ‘has to remain strictly neutral with respect to political matters’ and is unable to stand for election or vote.

Yet another good reason for leaving the EU! 

Far from superfluous, the Royal Family is what protects us from being represented on the world stage by idiots and criminals. Such scum do from time to time get elected to parliament, but are diluted by 649 others of equal status and an unelected chamber of people who do not have to pander to the Press.