Just over a week into the new reign and the British have been getting the hang of singing “God Save the King” for the first time in 70 years.
Senior barristers with the title Queen’s Counsel have been instantly transmuted from QC to KC. It is again polite to use the King’s English, and not to breach the King’s peace especially when travelling on the King’s highway. And Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End will follow its own tradition of switching genders, as it did in 1837, 1901 and 1952. Such are the pleasing little quirks that arise from having a constitutional monarchy.
