Example, the supreme court of Manitoba is now called “The Court of King’s Bench” – but the URL still says queen: https://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca/court-of-queens-bench/
Double takes abound. There should be a non-gendered form to use. “Court of Monarch’s Bench” or something ;)
Government documents also typically say “Queen’s Printer” on them. I always laughed at the idea that the Queen has some HP printer in her study that everyone is using. Guess they all need to say King’s Printer now.
It’s be a good wifi hotspot name - tongue in cheek of course. Even more so if you’ve got one of those crazy sovereign citizen type neighbours you can poke fun at.
I think the gender neutral that gets used the most is “crown”, but maybe that has a different connotation.
More importantly, though, Queens are rare, we just happened to had one during a huge period of technological advances, etc.
But we already have a king, his heir the kind lined up, and that king already has a male heir. Obviously shit can happen, but we’re pretty far from another queen in any of our lifetimes…
We also had one while Canada was being set up, so like all the treaties we signed were between her majesty and the various indigenous groups. So a lot of historical stuff is queen this and queen that, and then combine that with the past 70 years of queening and you get a very significant proportion of Canada’s history being queenly
Odds should be about 50/50 now that succession is gender neutral by default.
Barring anything substantial changing we’ll have kings for at least the next 70 years (George will be about 80 by then)
We can change our monarch at any moment through an act of Parliament.
The Royal Navy figured this out a long time ago. Just call it HM’s Ship. Works for both Her Majesty and His Majesty. Don’t ever need to repaint the name on the side of the ship.
I became a citizen this month after applying back when we still had a Queen and I got tripped up when saying the oath due to this—I’m on my 30s, there’s been a Queen forever, I’m not used to having a King. I’m sure I’ll get used to it at some point but man that felt weird.
Pretty much the same for me. The citizenship test booklet I used hadn’t been updated yet, even though it was a fair bit after she’d passed. And in the ceremony, it was all about the king.
(Not to mention that it’s super weird to affirm your allegiance to a monarch no matter what…)
Congrats! :)
It confuses me to see photos of the King in the royal regalia. I’ve only ever seen a woman wear that purple robe and it looks to me like the King is cross-dressing.
If you blur the lines between the person in the position, and the position itself, then perhaps the monarchy is simply trans…
Very funny haha
Couldn’t even be bothered setting up a 307 for His Majesty haha.
Watch out for the “Queen” of Canada these days https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romana_Didulo
