succession past the queen dead, there's now a king. the crown passes but the Crown (with the capital C) remains unchanged. how much does it matter which body wears the philosophical jewels, or does the institution, that useful legal fiction (as it is practiced here at least, through its myriad in-right-of transitory holders) continue changeless in its distant majesty? 220908 ... past (trying not to be to blithe, but also caught between the absurdity of a monarchy and the power of that legal crown, especially with the basis of my country on treaties where the crown is one party. it can't be abolished unilaterally without upsetting the fragile, oft-aborted, moves towards reconciliation, even if the entropy to keep it wasn't so deepseated.) 220908 what's it to you? who go blather from