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The thing I’m most uncomfortable with this going forward is, like, “the Queen of England” is such a major phrase that I don’t think I’ll be able to let go.

And like this isn’t just me – large parts of modern culture, songs, phrases, etc. are based on the understanding that the monarch of England is Queen. (What are the Sex Pistols gonna say, now? “His fascist… raging?”) And with a relatively minor (and rather negative experience, at that) interruption in the middle, this has been the case for the past almost 200 years. This isn’t something we can just CHANGE. I get that she was old and going to die, and if the monarchy was going to continue at all obviously they’d need to find some successor. But everything from that past few centuries makes “King whatever” absolutely incompatible with it.

So, like, obviously that’s not an acceptable situation. Which leaves a clear solution

The Queen is Dead; Force-Fem the King

“Oh, it’s quite simple, your Majesty. There’s way too many laws pertaining to the Queen, describing the Queen’s responsibilities, saying what the Queen can and cannot do. Some of them are load-bearing. Our government can’t pass laws unless the Queen signs off on them, did you know? We can’t update the laws which reference the Queen until we have a Queen, unfortunately. Which means that if you want to be King, you’ll have to be Queen first.”

“Mr. Prime Minister, what must I do to become Queen?”

“We’ve prepared a briefing packet; the laws’ requirements are quite scattershot. We’ve got a team of crack loophole-finders on the case. You must pardon the delicacy of the question, Your Majesty, but have you ever, quote, ‘bled from between the thighs’? If not, we’ll get a nurse in here with a sharp needle for the ceremonial blood spot gathering.”

Oh you laugh, but there’s an edit war happening on Wikipedia right now—people arguing on the Charles III talk page that the Jamaican constitution uses the phrase “Her Majesty,” so Charles constitutionally can’t be King of Jamaica!

IT’S HAPPENING IT’S HAPPENING WE’RE MAKIN’ IT WE’RE MAKIN’ IT REAL