07-27-2020, 02:59 PM
(07-27-2020, 02:43 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: So, how many European countries still have monarchs hanging around just in case their experimental democracies take a turn for the worst like it did in Germany? As far as I know, the English monarch still has an army, an air force and a navy.
Not an army, even though Elizabeth II when she was younger used to ride with the palace guards on various ceremonial occasions. About the time of Cromwell the army dropped the 'royal' adjective. For some reason, he didn't care for the royals. Something to do with his backing the urban progressive faction against the royal preference for the rural conservative? Anyway, the Army never picked up the adjective again, though the Air Force and Navy use it.
Don't know that the royals would actually use an armed force in earnest anymore.
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