EFE.- Britain’s royal family plays a “global role” that justifies its size being “much larger” than other European monarchies, government expert and constitutional expert Robert Hazell said in London on Tuesday.

At a conference organized by the UK in a think tank on changing Europe to present a report on the British monarchy, Hazell justified the “large size” of the British royal family, currently made up of 11 members assets, supported by public funds.

The professor of government and constitution of the thinking group “Constitution Unit” of University College London pointed out that “the big difference” between this institution and the rest of the other 7 continental European monarchies is that “the United Kingdom is much larger in terms of population – with nearly of 69 million people – than most other countries.

In addition to its larger size, Hazell adds that the British monarchy “plays a global role, as King Charles III is now the head of state of 14 other countries around the world – he is king of Canada, Australia, Jamaica, places in the Pacific like the Solomon Islands, etc. – with which it has a global reach that other monarchies do not have”.

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Carlos III is also at the head of the Commonwealth formed today by 56 member countries.

According to this, the UK “needs a larger monarchy to serve a much larger population” than the rest of the crowns.

The report states that Carlos III’s desire is to simplify and shrink the institution over time and make it less international, with fewer active members, which Hazell says will come naturally since some of those members are already old.

In her address, Catherine Barnard, Professor of Community and Labor Law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, today addressed the constitutional role of the monarchy, which she summed up in a single adjective: ‘complicated “.

“We are a democracy and it is quite rare to have a monarch who still has a lot of remaining power”, he observed, explaining that these prerogatives are, for example, “to dissolve Parliament, to declare war, to have the last word on bills before they become legislation and enter into treaties”.

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All of this begs the question of how this fits into a democracy. And the answer -he indicates- is that today “most of these powers have been taken by the government and the monarch acts only on the basis of the advice of the executive”.

According to the expert, there is “another less transparent role of the monarchy” in reference to the confidential weekly meetings that the king holds with the Prime Minister “and which are very useful”.

The professor also believes that “one of the justifications for the monarchy is to create a space in public life beyond the daily life of politics”.

Barnard concludes that in this country “there is a role for the monarch as head of the nation, a role for the monarch to unite the four nations, a role for the monarch to stand above the different branches of the government” while, he added, “We are also beginning to see the weakness of our unwritten constitution with the difficulties when things go wrong.”

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