I will still die on the hill that 1) Rey is the Empress now, by Palpatine's own statement and 2) the movie should have been called "Heir to the Empire," for old times sake
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I mean presumably she could stop being the Empress, by the same mechanism that Prince Henry is stopping being a Prince, but given that that involves negotiating with other, living members of the royal family, she may be S.O.L.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
The Empire officially doesn't exist anymore and generally if a monarch is thought to have absolute sovereignty that includes the right to unilaterally abdicate
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Harry has to negotiate because he's just a prince, and not even in the direct line of succession to the throne Edward VIII could just abdicate because he was the king and in charge
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I think Edward VIII probably did negotiate, though, because that's where his title, pension, and jobs came from. They wanted him to go away quietly and not make things difficult for George VI, especially with the war heating up and his pro-Hitler tendencies.
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Well yeah in real life the Establishment probably were the ones to push him to abdicate lest they make things difficult for him It wasn't that his girlfriend was American and divorced so much that she was an actual Nazi
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