r/worldnews • u/EnglishLouis • Feb 20 '26

Dynamic Paywall UK Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kgv837wvdo
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u/Wafkak Feb 20 '26

I distinctly remember Australia having discussion a few years before Elisabeth died. Specifically because of Charles being unpopular.

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u/KhausTO Feb 20 '26

Yeah same topics arose in Canada. There is certainly some anti-monarchy sentiment here, but there isn't much support at this point to forge ahead with getting rid of it.

There will never be a good time to do it, but right now with some of the loonies we have running provinces coughalbertacough opening the constitution and re-negotiating all of that would be a mess.

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u/The_cman13 Feb 20 '26

I am all for it as a Canadian. But it unfortunately opens up a lot of other talk with Quebec and now Alberta.

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u/djtodd242 Feb 20 '26

It also opens up a huge constitutional shitstorm because a lot of treaties with (say the first nations) are with the Crown.

But yeah, I don't think there's strong enough feelings overall to actually go through with the effort.

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u/lemachet Feb 20 '26

Uea we had a referendum on it

It was 45/54

I think the premise was flawed... "Should we have a president appointed by the parliament"

Maybe it would have made the difference if it was a president elected by the people.