Today's feudalism?

Question

lets use Britain as example: I know that they still have king & Queen, how is it affect their social life (politically)? Like, do they participate for voting laws, etc (I don't want to set boundary for my Question, provide as many event as you can, thank you)

P.S. the main thing I want to know is how much the citizens participate in politics

Answer 1

No longer at all.

Feudalism is a personal relationship between lord/suzerain and vassal. The retainer gives what he has (often just himself, but in the early middle ages landowners also brought their lands into the trade in exchange for the protection of more powerful lords), and the lord grants him protection and a livelihood in exchange for service.

Such relationships haven't been seen in the west for at least a couple centuries, and even what remained of it in the 1700s and 1800s was completely debased, with nobody really remembering why there were lords and vassals.

The Last expression of feudal relationship in the modern world may have been in Japan's corporate culture, when a man who was hired by a major company gave himself body and soul to it, with the understanding that so long as he lived, he'd never want, probably even getting a company funeral and cemetary plot.

Such relationships may still exist in areas of political instability, where warlords and similar local powers gather people around them with the promise of protection, and may themselves ally themselves to more powerful factions for the protection they can afford.