ROYAL NORWAY
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The Queen Emeritus, don't be ridiculous.
I'm not sure she will abdicate but I do think the workload do get to her at times. She's been doing this job for a very long time and she's a pro. The problems that she may have at this age is pretty much masked by her since of duty and determination to keep on keeping on.
She is approaching 90 though and I think we have to prepare ourselves for when we really see the evidence of her stepping back.
The relevant legal point is that there is no need for her to abdicate for Charles to be put in charge. It suffices to appoint Charles as regent. Furthermore, as also noted by others on this board, abdications require a change in the line of succession, which has to be agreed by all Commonwealth realms. All realms that have recently felt necessary to pass domestic legislation to incorporate the new Succession to the Crown Act (i.e. Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and several others, though not all realms) would presumably also have to pass an Abdication Act of their own, which could take a long time.
By contrast, there is already domestic legislation in force in the UK that provides for a regency in case the sovereign is incapacitated. Although the UK legislation doesn't bind the other realms, most of them think no action on their part is necessary as the sovereign's functions in the realms could be carried out by the Governor Generals (as they already ordinarily are).
I agree, she is aging but I am not sure what triggers your response of "aging rapidly". Is it a particular thing she has done or just the fact of her actual age of 88 that has done it?Yes, this is what I see happening. The queen, unfortunately, seems to be aging rapidly, imo, and she is going to have to make concessions. But she will not abdicate and there is no need for her to do so.
I agree, she is aging but I am not sure what triggers your response of "aging rapidly". Is it a particular thing she has done or just the fact of her actual age of 88 that has done it?
The Queen will never abdicate, but I think there should be some kind of a legal action taken in case of her incapability of performing the duties and Charles and William taking her place. Some kind of a regency.
Besides if I remember right the Queen Mother was active untill a year before she died.
I wonder what the Queen would say to all of this talk about her retiring or that she should because she is old.
Besides if I remember right the Queen Mother was active untill a year before she died. ...
The Queen will never abdicate, but I think there should be some kind of a legal action taken in case of her incapability of performing the duties and Charles and William taking her place. Some kind of a regency.
I don't believe in regencies. All the work for none of the credit. When and if it becomes time for the Queen to pass the torch I hope she is comfortable doing so.
She'd say that abdication is for wimps
I don't believe in regencies. All the work for none of the credit. When and if it becomes time for the Queen to pass the torch I hope she is comfortable doing so.
The Queen abdicate, how absurd. How can anybody think such a thing!
In 1981, there were some papers requesting that she abdicate in favor of the young.
Did not happen then will not happen now.
The House of Windsor is more progressive and not at all paralyzed by conventions and traditions, given the fact that many royals divorced and remarried, that the Heir remarried a divorced lady, that royals married "simple" commoner ladies from just around the corner, that the ban royals marrying Catholics is lifted, etc. All this shows that also the British monarchy is moving on and adapting with times. I would not chisel in marble stone that the Queen will never abdicate.
The Dutch Kings and Queens are reigning by the grace of God as well (see the concept for every Dutch Act or Royal Decree, below). We may assume that Popes are reigning by the grace of God as well. Apparently they felt it as a grace of God as well to be able to abdicate...
Souce: Montesquieu Institute The Hague: http://www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/9353202/g/1305_hoofdplaat.jpg
The Dutch Kings and Queens are reigning by the grace of God as well (see the concept for every Dutch Act or Royal Decree, below). We may assume that Popes are reigning by the grace of God as well. Apparently they felt it as a grace of God as well to be able to abdicate...
Souce: Montesquieu Institute The Hague: http://www.montesquieu-instituut.nl/9353202/g/1305_hoofdplaat.jpg