Via – BBC.com

As the Supreme Court ruling hacked a new path through Britain’s system of government, brushing ancient royal powers to one side, from Buckingham Palace came – nothing.

This is precisely where the Queen does not want to be – right in the middle of a political and constitutional hurricane, with the Supreme Court redefining the relationship between judiciary, legislature, government and monarch.

When the Scottish Court of Session ruled that the prorogation was illegal – one of the cases that went to the Supreme Court last week – a Palace source said simply: “The Queen acts and acted on the advice of her ministers”.

And that line held right up until today. The Queen has very little, if any, discretion over the prorogation of Parliament.

There’s an argument that says the Queen might have turned down Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request, given that his legitimacy is arguably thinner than previous prime ministers.

That would have been running zig-zag through a constitutional minefield.

But what happened today was painful for the Palace….

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