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    5 months ago

    Does King Charles have pardon powers?

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      5 months ago

      The thing about the UK system is that the King might nominally do something, but what he does is entirely decided by the cabinet. There are a handful of residual powers (eg: interfering with the timing of Canadian elections) but that’s pretty much it.