• In terms of legal formality, the British Constitution is monarchical.

• The reigning monarch (king or queen) is the head of state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

• As such, the reigning monarch is the titular head of the executive, legislature, and the judiciary, commander in chief of the armed forces, and Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

• The Primary legal source of the monarch’s personal powers and privileges is an ancient branch of the Common Law called the Royal Prerogative supplemented by statutes like the Bill of Rights 1689.

• Constitutional conventions have fundamentally shaped the exercise of the personal powers of the monarch when acting as head of state.

• The attributes and privileges given to the monarch as head of state are that the monarch can do no wrong, the monarch is never an infant, the monarch never dies, and the monarch is inviolable.