Osipi
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Don't underestimate the eventual impact of Prince Philip passing away. Her love, her spouse, her rock, her most trusted confidant of so unbelievably many years. It can have a profound effect on the surviving spouse and we all know the Queen is unmistakenably more and more frail.
I would not be surprised when the Queen indeed uses the Regency route to remain Sovereign but in daily life handing over the reins to her son Prince Charles.
It would make sense to me. No one, and I mean *no one* would expect the Queen not to go into a period of mourning for her beloved Philip if he should pass on before her. I don't know that she'd enact a regency but for all purposes, the everyday working of the monarchy would pass to Charles with the Queen remaining perhaps at Windsor still doing her boxes and the things a monarch *must* do but rest handed over to Charles.
I'm sure both the Queen and Philip are not ostriching and have thought about and made plans for just about anything that could happen. When you're in your 90s, you know that plans need to be made for the inevitable.