你们把英国王室给想的太美好了。
英国王室是君主立宪制国家里权限最大的一个王室了吧。诸如沙特、泰国不是君主立宪制，而是君主制，不可同日而语。
就官方来说，英国王室的当家的（女王或国王）有权：
The power to appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister任命和解除首相的权力
The power to appoint and dismiss other ministers.任命和解除其他大臣的权力
The power to summon, prorogue and dissolve Parliament召集、宣布休会、解散议会的权力
The power to make war and peace宣战和宣布停战的权力
The power to command the armed forces of the United Kingdom命令联合王国军事力量的权力
The power to regulate the Civil Service管理公务员队伍的权力
The power to ratify treaties批准条约的权力
The power to issue passports颁布护照的权力
The power to appoint bishops and archbishops of the Church of England任命英格兰地区教会主教和大主教的权力
The power to create peers (both life peers and hereditary peers).加爵授勋的权力（包括终身贵族和世袭贵族）
其他的都挺有意思的：
If the Queen pleases, she can ride in a horse carriage down Rotten Row, where others can only ride horseback. Her picture will appear on postage stamps, but she will not need them; her personal mail is franked. She can drive as fast as she likes in a car which needs no license number. She could tell her sister Princess Margaret when she could marry. She can confer Britain’s highest civilian decoration, the Order of Merit—one honour in which the Sovereign retains freedom of choice. What Her Majesty cannot do is vote. Nor can she express any shading of political opinion in public. The Queen cannot sit in the House of Commons, although the building is royal property. She addresses the opening session of each Parliament, but she cannot write her own speech. The Queen cannot refuse to sign a bill of Parliament, and she cannot appear as a witness in court, or rent property from her subjects.
海德公园的罗腾林荫道上做马车、在邮票上印自己头像、个人邮件不用邮票（这个......该是有专用信件通道）、不需要驾照而且可以随便超速、可以决定她的妹妹玛格丽特公主啥时候出价、她可以授予别人不列颠最高勋章，但她不可以投票选举、不可以公开发表政治见解、不可以坐在下议院、她可以在每届议会上致辞但都可以自己写发言稿、她不可以拒绝签署议会通过的法案（但她可以解散议会，哈哈哈）、她不可以在法庭邹正或从她的臣民处租赁不动产。
根据学者Walter Bagehot的说法，英国女王 Queen Elizabeth II
“could disband the army; she could dismiss all the officers . . .she could sell off all our ships-of-war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a ‘University’; she could dismiss most of the civil servants, and she could pardon all offenders.”
除此之外，她还是由53个国家和地区组成的英联邦王国的君主——惊不惊喜？意不意外？数字很大哦！此处错误，经过指正所述有误。每个国家情况差异，搞错了英联邦的定义和元首的定义。致歉，下面的都是错的了，看着玩就好了
她在这些成员国的地位，也很高，可以随时解散成员国的议会、重新组织选举。她在联邦成员国派驻的人叫做总督，对，你知道彭定康？就是这一角色在香港的代表。而女王在任命总督时候完全不需要考虑英国议会的建议，只用征询成员国最高行政长官（首相、总理）的建议（可以不理）。
虽然女王可以依照西敏（维斯特敏斯特）惯例一般不去干涉成员国的政务，但如果发生宪政危机或者面临战争状态，女王是可以宣布解散议会、重新大选的。1975年澳大利亚发生宪政危机，女王指示当时的总督克尔解散了澳大利亚议会，重新选举......
意味着：
澳大利亚、新西兰、加拿大、喀麦隆、塞浦路斯、孟加拉、文莱、巴基斯坦、马来西亚、新加坡、南非、尼日利亚等国，都是尊英国女王/国王为国家元首的。
但现在英联邦的元首换做了查尔斯王子
电影憨豆特工中，女王的外甥、法国商人Sauvage就是为了夺取英国的控制权发动篡位的。而他的设想中是把英国变成集权国家，现实中，这是英国王室有权力做到的。
光荣革命，并不彻底。只是个妥协的产物，但英国王室与时俱进、识时务者为俊杰，才有了今天的成就。但不要把他们当吉祥物。
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