# UK: If the Queen were to commit a crime could she be prosecuted? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 11, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907 "2008-05-11T11:01:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/21 "2008-05-13T05:20:50Z")
[QUOTE=Can Handle the Truth] Who’s Brenda? [/QUOTE] In _Private Eye_ magazine, Liz Mk2 is allus called Brenda 😛 The rest of the royal entourage are also given names other than their own, I forget them ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/22 "2008-05-13T05:28:51Z")
A quick Google: The Prince of Wales (Charlie)=Brian Philip= Keith The late Margaret= Yvonne The late Diana= Cheryl I do believe that on one occasion Philip was called Stavros ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/23 "2008-05-13T12:30:33Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] I do believe that on one occasion Philip was called Stavros [/QUOTE] For some reason, I find this unbelievably amusing. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/24 "2008-05-13T13:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] For some reason, I find this unbelievably amusing. [/QUOTE] Well he was born on Corfu, one of the Greek islands. Imagine if he’d been born on Lesbos 😛 Brenda would have been married to a lesbian 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/25 "2008-05-13T18:25:36Z")
[QUOTE=drhess] I hear she’s the head of an international drug cartel. [/QUOTE] Actually, I heard that she and the entire royal family are secretly giant intelligent lizards… ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/26 "2008-05-13T18:31:22Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Actually, I heard that she and the entire royal family are secretly giant intelligent lizards… [/QUOTE] “Secretly”? _“Intelligent”?_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/27 "2008-05-13T18:36:01Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] “Secretly”? _“Intelligent”?_ [/QUOTE] Hey, it’s not my delusion. Google “David Icke” sometime… ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907/28 "2008-05-13T18:58:33Z")
[QUOTE=APB] Whereas Louis XVI had indeed been deposed before being tried, Charles I was still king up until the moment of his execution. The [ordinance creating the High Court of Justice](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56301) called him ‘Charles Stuart, the now King of England’, he was referred to as king during the trial and he was described as ‘Charles Steuart Kinge of England’ in the [death warrant](http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/rise_parliament/making_history_rise.htm). Indeed, part of the point being made by at least some of the regicides was that he could be executed by them even although he was the king. Not that this was necessarily a valid legal argument, then or now. [/QUOTE] Thank you for the correction, **APB** , I hadn’t realized that. Regicides was clearly an accurate term then! Cromwell himself was offered the crown at one point but declined to reign as monarch. He was created Lord Protector, a title and position which passed to his son Richard after his death. (The latter was known as Tumbledown Dick owing to the brevity of his tenure). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-if-the-queen-were-to-commit-a-crime-could-she-be-prosecuted/448907.md?page=1)