Technically, does the Royal Family own the whole of the United Kingdom?

Question

At present the parliament is the governing body of the UK and the queen has no power to alter any laws but can only give her opinion and advise. But does the Queen of England or the royal family have the power to reclaim the whole United Kingdom and truly rule over it? That is if technically they really own the whole kingdom.

Answer 1

no.  They don't OWN Britain, nor could they just form a coup d'etat.

Answer 2

No.the royal family is just ceremonial more to show off to other nations to keep there cultural position and identity.

Answer 3

Technically, the British Monarch rules the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada (1867), Australia (1901), and New Zealand (1907), Jamaica (1962), Barbados (1966), the Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Papua New Guinea (1975), the Solomon Islands (1978), Tuvalu (1978), Saint Lucia (1979), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979), Antigua and Barbuda (1981), Belize (1981), and Saint Kitts and Nevis (1983).

The Prime Minister is voted for by the people to act as the Queens representitive in Parliament, so the Queen does technically hold ultimate power in all of the country's above.

Answer 4

No. The presence of the Queen is just ceremonial. She can't reclaim UK simply because of the parliamentary government. It will only be possible if the government will allow it and that the people   of UK will allow it.

Answer 5

The Queen has not power for reclaim the goverment. Only in exceptional  circuntains. For example the 23 of february a militar tried to reclaim the control of spain . with the help of some militar, he kidnaped the Congress of the Diputades (congreso de los diputados), and stop the prime minister in the palace of La Moncloa (the base of the spanish governement. is the same that the white house).

Then the king reclaimed the power and called  his soldiers to stop Tejero ( the militar). In this day the King had all the power in Spain. Queen Elizabeth can do the same if it happen in the UK

Answer 6

I left the Dioacy while I was yet still an altar boy,I have no recollection of any of my training in my quest for fatherhood.

Answer 7

In the United Kingdom, the Crown Estate is a property portfolio associated with the monarchy. Historically the possession of monarchs, it has evolved into a unique institution which transfers its income to the Exchequer, that is to the national government.

The Crown Estate is one of the largest property owners in the United Kingdom with a portfolio worth over £7 billion ($14.35 billion) as of 2007. The majority of the estate by value is urban, including a large number of properties in central London, but the estate also owns 110, 000 hectares (272, 000 acres) of agricultural land and forest, and more than 55% of the UK’s foreshore, and retains various other traditional holdings and rights, for example Ascot Racecourse and Windsor Great Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estat...

Although, the British monarch cannot amend and create laws, the Queen does have some "reserved powers." The Royal Prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity, recognised in common law and, sometimes, in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy as belonging to the King or Queen alone. It is the means by which some of the executive powers of government, possessed by and vested in a monarch with regard to the process of governance of their state, are carried out. Individual prerogatives can be abolished by Parliament, although in the UK a special procedure applies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Prero...

Answer 8

The British sovereign's rule over the UK is of a political nature, not proprietary.  That means: the UK is "the sovereign's land" in the sense that the sovereign is the highest authority in that land, but not in the sense that the sovereign owns the country like one would an apartment.  That was never the case, not even before Parliament was first formed.  It is not a question of whether or not Parliament exists, but rather it concerns the nature of royal power over a realm.

And technically, the Queen (or the British monarch) actually can alter legislation and even overturn any ruling, by any court in the UK.  This is a "left-over", if you will, from the times when the sovereign had broad political powers.  For obvious reasons, of course, the Queen (and all of her recent predecessors) has never actually used those prerrogatives.