The trend throughout history, starting with the Magna Carta and most recently the Supreme Court case on prorogation, has been the slow but sure loss of the monarch's personal powers and the transfer of those powers to democratic bodies either parliament or the executive.
One of the arguments in Miller II was that the monarch cannot be allocated any discretion to refuse a minister's order, because if she possessed that discretion then it would jeopardise her position as a politically neutral head of state. It is not that the monarch chooses to exercise powers on the advice of her ministers in fear of causing a constitutional crisis, but that her powers can only be lawfully exercised at ministers' direction.
As far as the monarch's veto on legislation affecting her (Queen's consent), this is not a legal power of the monarch but rather a privilege granted to the monarch by parliament. If parliament decided to rescind that privilege it could do so.
It's important to distinguish between language which describes the monarch from a symbolic point of view, and the actual constitutional reality. Symbolically the monarch is the personal manifestation of the state, but legally she is not much more than a rubber stamp for our democratic institutions.
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The trend throughout history, starting with the Magna Carta and most recently the Supreme Court case on prorogation, has been the slow but sure loss of the monarch's personal powers and the transfer of those powers to democratic bodies either parliament or the executive.
One of the arguments in Miller II was that the monarch cannot be allocated any discretion to refuse a minister's order, because if she possessed that discretion then it would jeopardise her position as a politically neutral head of state. It is not that the monarch chooses to exercise powers on the advice of her ministers in fear of causing a constitutional crisis, but that her powers can only be lawfully exercised at ministers' direction.
As far as the monarch's veto on legislation affecting her (Queen's consent), this is not a legal power of the monarch but rather a privilege granted to the monarch by parliament. If parliament decided to rescind that privilege it could do so.
It's important to distinguish between language which describes the monarch from a symbolic point of view, and the actual constitutional reality. Symbolically the monarch is the personal manifestation of the state, but legally she is not much more than a rubber stamp for our democratic institutions.