Canada is a constitutional monarchy with The Queen as Sovereign & head of state. In the provinces, the Lieutenant Governor is The Queen’s representative while the Premier is the head of government. (Photo: The Queen with Ontario’s LG Dowdeswell)
TIL that most Canadians have no idea what role the monarchy plays in Canada. According to one poll in 2008, only 24 percent of Canadians knew that Queen Elizabeth was their head of state.
opencanada.org/features/e…
People of Reddit who live in a country tied to a monarchy (Canada, Australia, South Africa), how useless is the monarch to you and why do your countries keep paying the crown?
The British Isles become part of Canada, the British government is incorporated, and the British Monarchy relocates there.
There is already significant portions of British military in Western Canada, and the distance across the Atlantic is not THAT much. What would it take for a weakened United Kingdom to fold into Canada? Post-Brexit, an evolution on CANZUK?
Is joining the Monarchist League of Canada the best way to support Monarchy as an American?
I'm entering the Military as an officer next month, so openly waving a royal banner would be frowned upon due to my oaths and my country's quite militiant republicanism. However, I have a deep admiration for traditional values and natural order, and see the Windsors as a kind of natural monarchy due to America's history.
I will be stationed near the northern border though, so i'll have plenty of opportunity to see the Dominion. Would joining the league be the best way for me to be involved?
ELI5: Why is Canada still technically a constitutional monarchy?
Why hasn't Canada separated itself officially from the UK after years of independence?
Why did the killing of King Charles not seem to receive the same political backlash from European monarchies as the killing of King Louis XVI?
At least in the historical record it doesn’t seem to have made as much of an impact.
If your government proposed a restoration of your countries monarchy that would act like the British or Swedish, would you support it or no? (Mainly aimed at Russians and Germans but other people are welcome to answer too)
Just to clarify I mean constitutional monarchy NOT absolute monarchy.
Also I’m not saying that this should happen, I’m just wondering what Europeans think
[WP] You live in a small town, and the legend of King Arthur, while widely known, is...just a legend - until Excalibur is found lodged in a nearby stone. The man who pulls it out will become king, and you pull it out. But there are two problems - America isn't a monarchy, and you're a woman.
The proposed Romanian-Hungarian monarchy (under the Romanian king's rule); map and coat of arms are fictional however the proposal itself by the Hungarian PM a hunderd years ago was not. Stay at home neighbours!
The Dual Monarchy of Hello Internet-Cortex
If the Queen can't by convention intervene in a constitutional crisis to protect Britain's people and institutions... then what is the point of the monarchy?
It can't be tourism. Empty French palaces draw more tourists than inhabited British ones, on account of the fact that tourists can actually go inside them.
Edit: RIP my inbox. I'll be reading through these comments this morning. Thank you for educating an American on... the debate about the monarchy. There's a huge cross section of views here, and I'm going to read through them all, and ask questions. I'm grateful you all took the time to answer, and discuss.
Map of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after the integration of the Crown of Naples, officially forming the Habsburg tri-monarchy.
[Submod] Restoration of Mexican Monarchy
All the more reason on why Italy needs a return to Monarchy. One form of government forms unity, another division.
[March 14th, 1920] Defending Alexanderplatz. View of soldiers as they guard Alexanderplatz with flamethrowers during the abortive Kapp Putsch, Berlin, mid March 1920. The putsch was an attempt to overthrow the nascent Weimar Republic and reinstall the monarchy.
imgur.com/a/wMJZZdB
Pat Connaughton blocks the signing of the Magna Carta (ca. 1215), securing the tyrannical English monarchy that we all know and love today
"Memories of the Peruvian monarchy or outline of the Inca's history" - an Incan History Book written by Justo Apu Sahuaraura Inca, descendant of 3rd Incan Ruler Huayna Capac (1493-1525); published in 1837 [1800 x 1292]
Julie Montague of LoL was interviewed for the new Meghan Markle doc, for her perspective on the challenges of an American marrying into a titled UK aristocracy/ the monarchy, and why Markle defected. I will be watching!!!
thewrap.com/vice-meghan-m…
The idea of Royal Families in this day and age is ridiculous. Idolizing and supporting a Monarchy idea is backward thinking for society and only supports a greater issue of privilege in society.
Why should we idolize a royal family that is blessed with a significant amount of privileges merely because of blood line from times when society was taken advantage of by the elite? In a time when we should be celebrating equivalent rights for all we still look up to royal families that have minimal purpose in this society. As an America I cannot believe anyone would think the idea of status of a Prince, Queen, King, etc. solely based on birth is acceptable. Haven’t those times past us?
what is exactly the point of still having a monarchy when the punishment for lying to the queen is getting elected as the new prime minister by a landslide?
[Contest Submission] The Elective Monarchy of Trebizond
The Greek Monarchy is so underrated, King George I of the Hellenes was epic.
TIL that one time, when Oliver Cromwell was asked what form of government he would replace the monarchy with, dodged the question by starting a pillow-fight
erenow.net/biographies/cr…
Youngest members of the Ottoman family 96 years after fall of the monarchy.
Lol, lies: "Each side favorite type of monarchy"
What's the red coat equivalent of a Wehraboo called? because they make up the majority of British right-wing shitposting young Tories etc with a hard one for the monarchy and Empire.
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