Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Absolutely. The whole "technically has a ton of power but never exercises outside of the will of the govt" thing is ridiculous. It makes sense for the UK to keep it (tourism $), but less so for the rest of the commonwealth.

Right, that's kinda my point.

I have a feeling that when the queen dies, we'll see at least one of the commonwealth countries remove the monarchy as head of state.

Yeah. Isn't it also the case that for at least one of these countries (probably Canada? I know more Canadians so I suspect I heard this from one of them) that the monarch is the current Queen, not "the monarchy of the UK" (i.e. succession isn't the same / doesn't exist)

Right, the Queen of Canada is legally distinct, and succession is its own thing. That said, Canada passed a law to change the rules of succession at the same time that they were changed in the UK in 2013, so the heir apparent is the same.

Ahhh okay, makes sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_Crown_Act_2013 … if you're interested. Every commonwealth country ultimately passed the same law AFAIK, which is why there was such a large delay between ascent and commencement. All legally distinct, but happen to have the same rules

what would have happened in Canada if this law had not been passed and she passed away? Was there a fallback succession law? Or would it be a crisis since the only person able to approve changes to succession law was dead?