The Queen needs to rest – there is a way she could retire without abdicating.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/queen-elizabeth-rest-retire-royals-b1944025.html
Can you just imagine what goes through the Queen's mind should she happen to come across media or whatever discussing abdication and the Regency Act? To hear people talking about possibly disposing of you when all you have to do is rest a knee (perhaps) at 95 years old is, to me, not conductive to happy, joyful thoughts for her.
Can you just imagine what goes through the Queen's mind should she happen to come across media or whatever discussing abdication and the Regency Act? To hear people talking about possibly disposing of you when all you have to do is rest a knee (perhaps) at 95 years old is, to me, not conductive to happy, joyful thoughts for her.
Perhaps she calls Cousin Harald in Norway and they laugh about it.
But much like she famously "doesn't notice what others wear", I think she only takes a limited and varied notion of what people say. Especially at this point.
On the contrary, I think the Queen, like all contemporary European monarchs, pays a lot of attention to public opinion and the Royal Family's public image. After all, her family's future depends on it.
Monarchies, in the age of democracy, only survive as long as the people support them. It may not be trivial to abolish them by the normal constitutional route, but it is possible to do it if there is enough political and popular support to do so. Luckily, in Europe at least, abolishing the monarchy is not a priority for most mainstream political parties and many politicians even have a vested interest in keeping it as they hold more power under a ceremonial monarch than they would otherwise have in an uncertain future republic.
In which year was there a first mentioning of the abdication of Queen Elizabeth II?
HMQ vowed as a young woman succeeding her father George VI that she would serve Britain and the Commonwealth her entire life "whether it be long or short".
But I believe it feasible for Elizabeth II to continue to fulfill that vow under retirement or during a Regency of the Prince of Wales.
She is globally recognized and respected. No one is suggesting that she be put out to pasture as a condition of retirement. She could still be effective behind the scenes.