For the professor of constitutional law Frédéric Rouvillois, the wave of emotion that gripped even the most Republican French at the announcement of the disappearance of Elizabeth II is an opportunity to reflect on the compared institutions of our two country: a crowned republic and a democratic monarchy.
In one of his last works, the marvelous Roger Scruton recognized, with a touch of humor very britishwhat “It’s part of conservative spirit of the English not to look too closely at inherited things, to stay away […] in the hope that they can continue without us. Their institutions, the English believe, are seen in a better light at a distance and through an autumnal mist.. This is the case with the British monarchy, this strange regime where the monarch, head of state and head of the nation, is nominally all-powerful but does not decide anything – since conventionally, it is up to the Prime Minister to put in work of the qualified powers of royal prerogative -, but where this impotence is also a higher form of power, while the presence of the monarch continues to be felt as responding to a real need.
In these days when the whole world celebrates and mourns the one President Macron called “The Queen”
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