‘Just not on!' Queen abdication talks squashed as HM 'will stick with it' despite struggle

Robert Hardman, a journalist and author who has written extensively on the Royal Family, said that talk of abdication was “just not on” in this current climate. Speaking after the announcement that the Queen would miss the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 60 years, Mr Hardman defied implications that her poor mobility may force her to give up her reign. He claimed she made “an oath before God and her people” and she honours that pledge with her life Mr Hardman told BBC Newsnight: “I think abdication, the a-word, is just not on. There was an outbreak of what I call abdication-itus across Europe in 2013 and 2014.  “That was when you had the King of Belgium, then the King of S ...
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