I have an uncle who shares a birthday with the Queen. He's 2 years (I think) older than her and whenever someone would say "Oh, you were born on the Queen's birthday", he'd respond, "No, she was born on mine."
He has now officially outlived her.
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I think Jamaica ended their monarchy earlier this year. I'm not sure if it is actually a done deal already or what the process is but I recall reading that Jamaica was ending things.
They did it in a perfect way.
They waited for William to show up on a tour and announced it then, IIRC it was during a speech in front of him.
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I think Jamaica ended their monarchy earlier this year. I'm not sure if it is actually a done deal already or what the process is but I recall reading that Jamaica was ending things.
Yep, they did and other ex-colonies are doing it to. It should be part of the decolonization process for Canada as well.
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I think Jamaica ended their monarchy earlier this year. I'm not sure if it is actually a done deal already or what the process is but I recall reading that Jamaica was ending things.
Jamaica is still in the process of becoming a Republic. They need to hold a referendum and then it needs to pass their House and Senate, so it's still some time off.
Barbados officially became a Republic on November 30 last year.
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Many of the most stable countries in the world are constitutional monarchies. There’s something to be said for a head of state that’s outside of partisan electoral politics.
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Of the top 20 countries in the Economist's annual measure of democratic health, 10 are constitutional monarchies: Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Luxembourg, Japan and the United Kingdom. Those ten countries, plus Belgium, also placed among the top 21 countries in the last edition of the UN human development index.
Correlation is not causation. But if you were looking for a group of ten countries to align yourself with, you could do much worse than those ten. And it's possible that constitutional monarchy has attributes that contribute meaningfully to a country's success.
An apolitical head of state with no electoral mandate can act as a broadly unifying figure and a voice for shared principles while being counted on to stay out of the political fray. While deferring to the democratically elected legislature — maintaining clear lines of political accountability and avoiding gridlock — they can still act as a neutral safeguard for democracy, ensuring the continuance and orderly transition of government.
Or we just keep going as we have been since forever, except with someone else's picture on our money. This isn't as complicated as people seem to be making it out to be. It's not that tough to mint new coins... even the toonie wasn't in any way disruptive, I'm not sure why anyone thinks this will be.
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Many of the most stable countries in the world are constitutional monarchies. There’s something to be said for a head of state that’s outside of partisan electoral politics.
It's unifying for people who can culturally and historically relate to monarchy and power it symbolizes. For minorities, indigenous people, and people who were absorbed into it through conquest, it's just a historical reminder of injustice.
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It’s weird to even think/say/type king of England. It’s always been queen. Felt like it always would be.
In the last 185 years there have been 6 British Monarchs, 2 Queens, and 4 Kings.
Victoria
Edward VII
George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Liz II
In that time, the Queens have reigned for ~133 of those years.
So yeah, for the last ~2 centuries, having a Queen has been much more often than not, the state of affairs.
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