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  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    7 hours ago

    The line has been manipulated several times by Parliament, including the selection and elimination of kings.

    The point of the royal family now isn’t to be a defined lineage, but an agreed upon vessel to hold power when Parliament temporarily breaks. Even then, Queen Elizabeth II was kind of shit at it.