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3 November 1534 — The Act of Supremacy is passed, granting King Henry VIII of England and subsequent monarchs royal supremacy, declaring him the supreme head of the Church of England.

4 November 1950 — European Convention on Human Rights is signed in Rome by 12 member states of the Council of Europe.

5 November 1605 — Guy Fawkes is arrested beneath the House of Parliament due to the plot being discovered.

6 November 1942 — The Church of England relaxes its rule that women must wear hats in church.

7 November 1990 — A woman becomes the first woman President of the Irish Republic.

8 November 2006 — The Companies Act 2006 receives Royal assent with the goal of making life easier for business owners.

You might have seen the recent news about Prince Andrew being stripped of his title. If not: he was previously Duke of York, and following the allegations and public controversy surrounding him, the title was removed.

What’s legally interesting is how this happened.

Most legal authority in the UK can be traced back to the Crown. Royal assent is needed for Acts of Parliament to become law. Courts act in the name of the Crown. And ministers exercise executive power “on behalf of the Crown.” So even though we think of the UK as a parliamentary democracy, the legal framework still rests on the Crown as the formal source of authority.

This is because the Crown’s prerogative powers pre-date Parliament. They began as the personal powers of the monarch. Over time, Parliament has limited or regulated many of them. But unless Parliament has actively removed a prerogative power, it continues to exist in law.

That’s the context for the removal of Andrew’s title. Many assumed Parliament would need to legislate, often pointing to the Titles Deprivation Act 1917, used in the First World War to strip titles from peers who supported Germany.

But the 1917 Act didn’t create the power to remove titles. It simply provided a procedure for that specific moment. The underlying power to grant and withdraw honours rests with the Crown.

So the King used a royal warrant to instruct the Lord Chancellor to remove the title from the Roll of the Peerage. This was straightforward because hereditary titles no longer guarantee a seat in the House of Lords. Without a legislative function attached, the title is now mostly symbolic — and symbolic honours are easier to revoke.

The point isn’t the scandal, but the mechanism.

The constitution still contains powers that have never been dismantled. They remain in force unless Parliament decides to legislate otherwise. And every so often, something like this reminds us that the legal architecture of the UK still rests on authority that pre-dates Parliament.

Do you think powers like this should remain with the Crown, or should Parliament take more of them over?

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