When Did Britain's Kings Lose Their Power?

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Given everything that has happened over the years, why hasn’t the uk ripped the band aid off and went for more federalization of the country. Given the divisions and bicameral legislature it might be a good idea

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[@alexandergangaware429]

Parliament: Treason is an offence against the country, not the King, and treason is bad. Also Parliament: Literally collaborates in a foreign invasion

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Eh it was less of a foreign invasion and more of just getting Dutch troops to take Parliament’s side in a civil war.

[@richardarriaga6271]

It's only treason if you lose

[@LtZetarn]

@@lioraselby5328 and many royal family of many europe kingdoms is just like uncle, grandsons or distance relative to each other.

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@@LtZetarn yep

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Literally from Parliament's website: "the Dutch ruler William of Orange landed at Brixham with an invasion force on 5 November 1688". That is very much the definition of a foreign invasion regardless of purpose.

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Fun Fact: The British Monarchy still holds a surprising amount of power, however, it's not exercised by Elizabeth II because she, rightly, believes if she did so it would lead to the abolishment of the monarchy.

[@CharlieZColt]

Here’s what I’m trying to understand. Americans seem to always frame the American Revolution as a fight against a tyrannical king in King George III. But wasn’t England basically 100% a democracy (for men at least) since the 1689 Bill of Rights?

[@mharley3791]

@@CharlieZColt this question has multiple layers to it. The top layer ( the stuff taught in US history classes) is that the bill of rights of 1689 only extended to the vote to people who owned land, and did not extend to Britain’s colonies. So the king and parliament were able to raise taxes on the colonist with out their representation (which is why “no taxation without representation” os a famous slogan in the US) A deeper layer is that there were a ton of other ideological differences between the colonies and the UK. The colonies wanted to expand west, despite treaties with Native Americans and the UK forbade it. The UK was also in the process of ending the slave trade/abolishing slavery in the UK, something that angered the southerners

[@sovietunion7643]

@@CharlieZColt ehh, it was only a democracy for those who had land, or very highly educated, and a few other exceptions. otherwise not really. like just over 2% of the white male population in britian could vote in 1770s, which considering how much of the population was under-literate and lacked understanding of noble politics its unlikely they would be able to make a educated response anyway america was very unique in having such a high literacy rate plus being so spread out with a lot of land to spread out with that democracy worked relatively well, especially with the method in america, where states today are still semi-autonomous even after several waves of centralization over the years

[@pieceofschmidtgamer]

@@mharley3791 *The colonies wanted to expand west, despite treaties with Native Americans and the UK forbade it.* In reality, the only reason why Britain forbade it was because it helped to lower the cost of defending the colonies by minimizing the number of forts needed to cover the Trans-Mississippian West. Basically the British couldn't stop the colonists from moving west (and they knew it), but if they did move West past the line they would be outside Royal Protection. Essentially, the British didn't give a damn about the Natives any more than the colonists did. Basically, during this period the British operated in regards to the Thirteen Colonies with three motivations: Cut Costs, Raise Revenue, and Punish any Intransigence from the Colonists.

[@dantelenister3503]

Actually The queen is still the most powerful person in GB, because government doesn't have the power. Money dose.

[@zhuljinjager402]

I'm surprised there's not many comments about Ireland and Northern Ireland actually being seperate now, I thought for sure when I saw the graphic at the end and heard "UK we all know and love"

[@richardarriaga6271]

IRA bombed the British into their place after famine, cultural genocide, and serfdom were imposed on Ireland. Though with Brexit, Cromwell's legacy may be undone if both sides decide to reunify in the coming decades due to the added stress of Brexit on trade in Northern Ireland. Ironic, since Brexit was an attempt to create the "UK we all know and love" even though it was more powerful under the EU.

[@tbotalpha8133]

Yeah, I can't tell if they were just playing up the British caricature of thoughtless self-centredness. Or if they genuinely forgot/didn't care about the bitter rebellions of the Irish against English rule.

[@CosmicFreedoms]

it was a picture of the UK in the 1800's so its accurate and Sidequest is a british stereotype who of course loves the UK when it was at its height

[@sir_vix]

Yeah the fact that Cromwell's new model army was responsible for a native population decline of between 15% and 50% (older estimates go as high as 83%), amongst the many policies of ethnic cleansing enacted by the parliamentarians, you'd think it would be worth inserting an ironic pause at very least...

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I think it was a deliberate joke

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To the moon!

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[@scpdatabase969]

It’s fascinating how an icon of actual power has become a pop icon instead. I wonder which force to be reckoned with today will be looked back on like the English monarchy today

[@sirnikkel6746]

I bet its Parliament.

[@twomp5613]

@@sirnikkel6746 man we really will be ruled by wealthy cyborg elites in the future won’t we. 😩

[@jaromir_kovar]

Maybe the parliament itself being driven by the wants and needs of corporations?

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The United States Oh wait, we’re already there

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[@Hollows1997]

To clear up some confusion in this video: James II was the son of Charles I not Charles II as many have pointed out, James II became King because Charles II had no legitimate children.

[@brendansunra]

My understanding is that James II's unpopularity was partly due to his Catholicism, whereas his daughters Mary and Anne were Protestant.

[@Hollows1997]

@@brendansunra correct. That’s why his daughter Anne was co-monarch alongside her husband William of Orange.

[@No-hd4cg]

@@Hollows1997 William III co-reigned with Mary not Anne.

[@iangard9354]

The primary reason James II was deposed was more due to the fact that he was Catholic. Also I kinda find it weird you just completely skipped Charles II and the restoration of the monarchy.

[@Boosher_]

kind of weird tbh

[@yagamienjoyer4408]

i noticed that as well

[@shadows_assassin3131]

I loved the people and the people loved me, so much that they restored the british monachy!

[@freneticness6927]

Catholic and had an heir. No heir and it would have been fine.

[@binder946]

This is inaccurate and provides false facts. Monarch is the most powerful office. Even above supreme Court. Parliament is just a rubber stamp and pm can be removed by the crown but not the other way around. Propaganda piece tbh.

[@Oodelally]

The Second Barons war was actually caused by the taxes imposed by Henry III to raise funds for the Pope’s war against Sicily - which would give the title to his son, Edmund - as well as the favouritism he gave to the Lusingans and the Savoyards (the Lusingans were even above the law at one point). It was actually Simon de Montfort and later Edward I who instituted the House of Lords.

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[@jonathanbowers8964]

The kings of Britain lost all power forever when Elizabeth II took the throne and declared she would reign forever. Our immortal queen will make sure that another king will not sit on the throne of Great Britain ever again. Long live the Queen.

[@jonathanwebster7091]

I think the irony of changing the Line of Succession from semi-salic (women can succeed, but only if they have no brothers), to absolute primogeniture (eldest child of the monarch can succeed no matter their gender)in Britain, while I am of course, totally in favour of it, is that literally everybody in the direct line of succession is male. So, no matter what happens (barring the highly unlikely event Britain becomes a republic in the future, or an unlikely series of deaths), we'll end up with Kings reigning over Britain for pretty much the next 150 years. This is equally true for Denmark and Luxembourg, who have both changed the law of succession to be gender-neutral, yet all those in the direct line of succession are all male.

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I've read a lot about this but I still didn't know about things like the Provisions of Oxford. Nice video.

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[@dylanking6960]

If German bombs knocked out the electricity at Buckingham, would that count as the king losing his power? Edit: Buckingham, not Buckminster

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England has had 7 Queens not 6, Jane, Mary , Elizabeth , Mary , Anne , Victoria , Elizabeth. Or 8 if you include Matilda (although not generally classed as queen)

[@barneyh7014]

Does Jane really count though ? Edward’s will wasn’t approved by parliament so you could argue she wasn’t the legitimate queen.

[@barneyh7014]

I’d probably be inclined to include her though.

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Freddie Mercury?

[@trooololol]

Why are there 2 Mary? There's only one. Are you thinking of Mary queen of scots? She was never queen of England

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@@trooololol Mary the 2nd was the eldest daughter of James the 2nd , she ruled jointly with her husband William from 1689 to 1694, Queen Anne was her younger sister

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4:50 Parliament: "Charles I committed treason against England, therefore he must be executed!" Also Parliament: *Organizes a literal invasion against England*

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“The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths-another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.” ― Christopher Hitchens

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Unfortunately, Ol' Hitch was mistaken in respect to this: the title 'Defender of the Faith' (Latin: 'Fidei Defensor') has absolutely nothing to do with the monarch being head of the Church of England: it was originally granted (somewhat ironically, by the Pope) to Henry VIII for his defence, in his book, of the Roman Catholic Church against Martin Luther and the then-nascent Lutheranism. The title was then *re-granted* to the monarch by subsequent Act of Parliament. It was the later Act of Supremacy that established the monarch being head of the church. So the title is, just like the crown itself, the gift of parliament, who can rescind it by simple Act of Parliament (as they can the crown).

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On the whole king idea. It would be interesting to see a video on hungary after ww2. A regent without a king and an admiral without a navy. Yknow..

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[@woodlandcreature8857]

Based on how the modern British Parliament behaves I long for the days of divine right

[@brendansunra]

Just be glad y'all didn't end up with King Boris. Imagine trying to put a crown on that mop head, yikes!

[@woodlandcreature8857]

@@brendansunra haha that's true, glad we avoided that! However, a Stewart Monarch would be much better than BoJo, would be difficult to be worse

[@comeatmebro3012]

“They also added Ireland into the mix.” is a bit of an *oversimplification*

[@tyrellarson]

I'm not sure the Irish are going to like that last depiction of the UK.... Still... love this channel. Great as always .

[@petelosuaniu]

Have you told the Americans? According to them the Tyrannical King personally led the troops into battle in the American Revolutionary War. In reality, he probably didn’t have a clue what was going on (as he had ongoing dementia and other mental health issues). Parliament had all the power.

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[@countschad]

Please do a video about how and when kings in the UK became figureheads.

[@willforest5302]

Mentioning Henry III without mentioning the role of William Marshal was a great shame. it's also important to mention that the Barons where demanding the ancient liberties of their Anglo-Saxon ancestors that where lost when the normans invaded.

[@anderskorsback4104]

Which is rather ironic considering how the great majority of those barons were descendants of those invading Normans.

[@willforest5302]

​@@anderskorsback4104 yes exactly, they where the decendants of both and basically decided the Anglo-Saxons had the right idea on kingship (mainly because it benefited them)

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6:06 Wilhelm scream!

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[@Sp3kCookie]

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[@Derekzparty]

It was my understanding from watching previous KZbin videos that the Queen has the same powers as Charles 1 claimed. If she were to commit a crime she couldn't be arrested because the ability to arrest people is done in the name of "Her Majesty's court service".

[@kulrigalestout]

That artistic 13th was beautiful!

[@thepotatoarmy980]

Rest in peace queen

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

What an amazing video for someone who is not experienced within the British early history, this is probably my favorite sidequest video ever

[@Zarastro54]

“100 years later they also added Ireland into the mix; to form the United Kingdom we all know and love!” The Irish: “Are ya sure about that?”

[@astr0nox]

Classic British sarcasm

[@shevek5934]

Looking forward to part 2 about how we got from Queen Victoria's relative political activism to the political neutrality of Queen Elizabeth II.

[@Prideace93]

I'm pretty sure that those Kings disposed saw the corruption of parliament such as how did the parliament execute Charles is by literally forcing their own people to sign his execution

[@luiszuniga2859]

Nobody signed the Magna Carta, it was a verbal agreement between the king and the barons

[@wilhelmhetrick8948]

We did skip over parliament illegally bleeding the monarchy of it's power over time. Here and there they passed little laws that stripped the monarchy of powers such as vetoing many things, raising taxes during a time of war without consulting parliament first and deciding the budget of branches of government etc. until we get to post WW1 where the monarchy lost the last of it's power except as commander of the Royal Armed Forces and the ability to declare war and sign peace treaties. It's a real shame because the monarchy was doing real good for the people in the late 1800s and really was being lead by kings who wanted to better the life of everyone. Parliament actually in many ways caused worsened conditions after WW1 because they gave so much power to big business, and since the monarchy just before the war was working to remove big business monopolies and power the businesses clung to it like never before when they got it back. And it is the cause of many economic problems the UK faces today.

[@zacharygustafson8714]

Mind sharing where you learned this info? I know a fair few loyal chaps who would love to use this info against the republicans.

[@wilhelmhetrick8948]

@@zacharygustafson8714 I wish I could tell you friend, but I've watched hundreds of documentaries and read lots of books about the subject of UK history alone. I just turn on a documentary or audio book when I play games. I really don't remember what specific title of the one it was I got this particular bit of information from. I think the title was something along the lines of "The innocents of the last monarchs of Europe." It was an audio book, and it went over how most of WW1 was to blame on big business buying out parliaments, or what ever version of it a country had to pressure them into wars and how they did it. It also goes over how they used the wars to strip the last of the power away from littlerly all monarchs in Europe. It also shows that WW1 was a war everyone should've saw coming because of all these small micro wars nations were getting in, raising tensions but the media was covering it up because the wars were all basically big businesses competing for resources not countries. Very fascinating stuff. Also I to am a staunch loyalist to the monarchy, though the German monarchy, but I root for the Queen across the channel all the time. I do hope you get your monarchy back and your empire one day.

[@FirstNameLastName-gq3uv]

@@wilhelmhetrick8948 Is this a LARP?

[@wilhelmhetrick8948]

@@FirstNameLastName-gq3uv yes people having different opinions is clearly the definition of larp

[@FirstNameLastName-gq3uv]

@@wilhelmhetrick8948 I don’t know, I’ve just never ever met anyone who was pro-monarchy. Like I’ve been plenty of people quibble over what flavor of republicanism a country should adopt, but this is the first time I’m seeing anyone want a return to monarchy. I always thought monarchists were a meme

[@tuskiomisham]

Every episode gets better. Well done

[@Tut359]

RIP Elisabeth II

[@jasonbarrette4980]

I swear I just heard an ad that was voiced by this guy right before the video started

[@Mars-ev7qg]

With people being arrested for holding up signs saying not my king it seems like the current king still has a dangerous amount of power.

[@Justin-pe9cl]

To be fair it’s a stupid thing to do.

[@Swissswoosher]

4:44 you skipped over the King who brought back Partying, Charles II.

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

Animated movements of some long standing figures in the frame is somewhat torn... But damn, adaptation of a spongebob meme is priceless I generally thought that obsession with land (in contrast to the obsession with a murdering and pillaging strongman AKA the king) formed somewhere in Germany or Italy (since the realms were long disunited). But your description of the king's court cleared up what took Historia Civillis two protracted videos to cover. No wonder nationalistic historians call England one of the first nations around (plus the Dutch and the Cossacks) since they first started paying attention to land more than to the king.

[@ScottishBr4h]

Well played at making my eye twitch with the Ireland joke

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Congrats on getting that Cards, The Universe, and Everything Money. Hope it helps keep this show going.

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Great video! It's nice to see you grow fast because you deserve it!

[@KarlMarshall]

5:29 trigger warning

[@Caiyde]

I physically flinched when you covered the Republic of Ireland with the Union Jack

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

A funny video you could do is talking about how England has no government. It's a funny unknown fact people don't know, England never had a government since 1707 due to the acts of union. There's even a literal England Independence movement!

[@The_Captainn]

Look at that nice, juicy sub count. I'm not sure what took so long, but lads (and lasses?) you've made it. Congrats, SideQuest! See you at 1 million!

[@ecclesiasticman4417]

1:59 pun moment.

[@orphanobliterater7027]

Great Video. I Am Enjoying These

[@derrickstorm6976]

People still blaming the royal family for colonialism though

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[@FilipinoBoii]

RIP for the Queen

[@AG4HUNNA]

nah

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@@AG4HUNNA edgy

[@ianrogerburton1670]

LOVE IT ! Very Monty Pythonesque and highly informative, although many historians consider that the process continued right up till Victoria.

[@johnz3535]

Charles III should abolish the parliament immediately and restore power to the crown.

[@yamz3713]

One of my new favourite channels! Great animations, short and informative! Didn’t know about the name of “house of commons”

[@michele3135]

Fun to watch my bachelor's degree thesis in a 6 minutes video

[@BrownFoxWarrior]

I always imagined how much it'd suck to know that you're of royal descent, yet you end up being a celebrity at best with no actual benefit of rolling lucky to be born onto that family.

[@RedLogicYT]

I've been in the hospital for a week. Hope I get home soon. Thanks for the video.

[@qfox16789]

The UK has actually had queen’s almost exactly 20% of the time

[@jackdoyle7453]

Pretty sure it was Simon De Montfort who first invited the knights and burroughers.

[@PakBallandSami]

"No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country" -Daniel Radcliffe

[@jonathanwebster7091]

Meh, I think there's better people to represent Britain than "that guy who became famous for playing Harry Potter".

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@jonathanwebster7091 no one's stopping you from quoting those "better people"

[@jonathanwebster7091]

@@WanderTheNomad "Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians." -oh no, shit, that's Margaret Thatcher 🤦 the moral equivalent of dog shit, only not as fragrant (or as attractive). To be fair, I hate everything the woman stood for, but I think she had a point this once. Also as someone from the North and more particularly, Lincolnshire, sorry for producing Maggie Thatcher. No really, sorry about that. Sorry.

[@jonathanwebster7091]

@@WanderTheNomad "The monarchy is a political referee, not a political player, and there is a lot of sense in choosing the referee by a different principle from the players. It lessens the danger that the referee might try to start playing" -Bertrand Russell.

[@malegria9641]

Only a few months ago you were so small, im so happy to see you get the subscribers you deserve!

[@k.butler8740]

At least them Kings kept slavery tamped, until the glorious revolution that is

[@gryphonbotha1880]

5:31

[@skashax777x]

wait a minute, I'm sure Ireland rebelled took back the southern part of the land mass and GB somehow held on to the Northern land mass we call Northern Ireland? I think you ended a little prematurely, A bone of contempt for many

[@KYLETIBOR]

@3:37 What a reference A+

[@shinxxed]

I remember commenting before you got to 100k and now you're so close to 400k. Keep up the amazing videos!

[@theblackneon5396]

Went from being an empire with incentive for growth, to a nation inhibited by bureaucracy.

[@mueezadam8438]

The British empire was propped up by the exploitation of their colonies. They always were. First it was just Ireland but more and more nations were made to bend the knee

[@MrArthoz]

Malaysian here...our political party here always complain that our King should follow and obey the constitution and bow to the wishes of the parliament. I always got to explain the British constitutional monarch is different from Malaysian constitutional monarch. The Brits cut off the head of their king and crowned another, the power of the constitution comes from the Parliament. While here, we are absolute monarch only the council of Kings chooses to allow constitutional democratic rule. Constitution and law comes from the king. It's not bad, because often when we got lousy ministers or political parties attempting to subvert the nation or becomes utterly corrupt or abusive to the people...the council of kings just step in threatening to dissolve the democratic rule and revert back to absolute monarchy. There's even provision that the King may reject minister, head minister or prime minister elected for the position. Also the military is directly under the king. Once we had a terrible flood, our king ordered the army to blast a small islet at the river estuary to make the flow bigger and relieve the flooding...he even paid the cost from his own royal treasury. Not to mentioned there's the volunteer regiments of royal guards made of the common citizens in every state to uphold the royal sovereignty. In short democracy works if they work for the people's interest...but now when the elites and corporation corrupted them...all you get is suffering. Here, the parliament are just managers to handle the day to day operation of our nation under the scrutiny of the board of directors which is the Council of Kings...the public servant who works for the people, not some political big shot master dreaming to be the next Churchill or Thatcher. But honestly we do have corruption and scheming politicians...nothing is perfect. But thing is, we even managed to deposed a prime minister and put him in court and caused many more political coalition to collapse is the sign that our form of constitutional monarchy works.

[@stevetheheadcrab7110]

The thing is about stuff like that is. Alot of Kings are corrupt. If he and his council wanted to become an absolute monarch and rule with an iron fists nobody could actually stop them. Considering they control the army. So all it takes is ONE bad egg and kaboom. Hence why in the UK our queen's and King's are only Ceramonial.

[@sirsteam6455]

People forget that regardless of ideology or government people can be corrupt or altruistic whether they a elected official or a Absolute monarch, with either system having their benefits and their weaknesses

[@OlvAsterisk]

alot of british communist or socialists hate the monarchy lol that just fitting lol

[@vaibhavs7948]

Ahh.. My birthday and my good friend Sidequest. Very Much Invited..

[@Ghost-tv1yg]

him : the United Kingdom we all know and love me from a UK formal colony : yeah about that

[@crowbar9566]

Yeah but your former colony is even less popular 😂😂

[@MultiSciGeek]

This was interesting, and it got me wondering... Can we get a video on the Dutch please?

[@historybuff14jones77]

English civil war, nice

[@ManOfTheWeek596]

well the civil war was only one step and not the first one, the parliament already existed before that and had some power, which charles 2 ignored wich lead to said civil war

[@historybuff14jones77]

@@ManOfTheWeek596 I thought it was going to be about the English civil war as it showed the king who I thought was Charles the 1st and a parliamentarian so that’s how I got that assumption

[@psychols2007]

What a lot of people don't know is the "Leges Edwardi Confessoris". Apparently, a codified set of laws that stipulated (as well as other things) the responsibilities of the monarch. The reason I say "apparently", is because it's widely understood that these laws were not really based on Edward I rule, but rather as a way to help smooth over the transition of power to William the Conqueror. In any event, these laws (referred to about 1070 and composed about 1135), were a key principle (with language such as "a king who fails in his duty loses the very name of king") in possibly why no English monarch since 1066 has ever held truly despotic power, even before 1215.

[@ChopSquadBaby]

Islamic England would have been so cool 😊 respect to that guy 👑

[@mueezadam8438]

Would’ve never happened. Britain’s geopolitical position always saw itself distinguished from continental Europe. Everything from paganism to Christianity was always kept isolated from its neighbours

[@ChopSquadBaby]

@@mueezadam8438 na, it definitely could have happened 😊

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

"The king can't be prosecuted for treason, because treason is against the king!" "The king's behaviour has lead to the king being prosecuted by us and risking his head, I'd say he did in fact act against the king."