Nick,

With pleasure!

The Armed Forces of Great Britain, all 147,000 of them, swear personal allegiance to Elizabeth II, not to Parliament or the Prime Minister.
Ditto Australia, 33,000 and Canada 95,000.

She has a personal bodyguard of Cavalry from The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals as well as a Troup of The Royal Horse Artillery.

In Australia her representative, The Governor General, is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and has the Royal Military College (Duntroon), some 500 troops (cadets and staff) at his immediate command.

The Prime Minister and Parliament have no military power whatsoever.

The various Australian Police Forces/Services also swear an Oath of Allegiance to the Queen as do the AFP and the Border Force.

If it ever came to a showdown between Parliament and the Queen, I have no doubt that the Armed Forces would keep their oath.

Isi, I have to thank you too.
You hit a home run on that reply.
Now if these morons don't finally get it, we will know that they are simply being capricious and are not in command of their faculties.
I just finished giving Yuyutsu a pat on the back for his comments, and here I am faced with the same praise on the very next posting I read.
This has got to be one of the best days on OLO I can remember.
Well done keep it up.
BAZINGA!

ALTRAV your insults point to a man of uncertain parentage
My fault, not ignoring you that is
You time and again show you have the mind of a child a very poorly behaved one.
Get you will in order mental decay comes quickly
HOW DARE YOU?
tell me how dare you use words like that
no insult is bad enough to tell you how very stupid you are

Dear Belly,

ALTRAV has obviously been watching too much of the TV show -
"The Big Bang Theory." When Sheldon Cooper - thinks he's
being funny - so that you'd know - he ends his comments with -
BAZINGA! To make sure that people get what he's trying to say.

Gentlemen you both are wrong liz has zero power over us.
You have supported your wrong, sometimes toxic, views with insults and anger.
I can never again respect either of you,
This thread surely has been turned by you, in to a Monty Python type script.
The speech liz gives at the opening of parliament is written for her.
The childlike view that Royal despotes fought for therefore own any country is bizarre and untrue

Foxy, surprisingly enough, it turns out that, I do actually have to 'insult' people in my posts, because it so happens that the comments made by 'some' are themselves insulting and inflammatory, even though they would argue otherwise.
So I am, as the saying goes; 'fighting fire with fire', or do you feel the need to disagree with that too.
You see Foxy, as much as you keep bleating on about YOUR opinions of what everyone else should be doing, I, and others find YOUR comments are offensive, insulting and inflammatory, because, it may come as a shock to you, but YOUR views are not of the 'real world, but are all fantasies of this world you have created in your head.
As it turns out, those of us offended by you and your views, would suggest you keep them exactly where they belong.
In YOUR head!
Oh, and as for being admired, I have more than enough admirers thanks, and I don't seek a superiority complex, apparently I am already superior enough, so my admirers keep telling me.
As for your suggestion to 'get a dog', don't need one, but that says a lot more about you than it does me.
If you feel I am unsavoury and need a pet, seeing as if you already have one, it has not helped you.
If you do not have one, it appears I am one up on you again.