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0 pointshansjorg11y ago0 comments

I might me misremembering it, but I think this was told in the documentary Stealing a Nation [1].

According to Wikipedia, there is a commissioner with the Foreign Office that acts as administrator, but that commissioner is directly appointed by the Queen [2].

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_a_Nation

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_British_India...

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M2Ys4U11y ago

>directly appointed by the Queen

While this may be technically true, the monarch's powers (the royal prerogatives[0]) are almost exclusively exercised on the advice of the prime minister/cabinet.

In other words, while the power officially rests with the Queen, the UK government is the one to wield it in practice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative

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