Why exactly can the Royal family of Great Britain be Catholic…?
In a constitutional monarchy such as the UK (not Great Britain, which is only part of the UK), the monarch can’t do exactly as they like because of laws preventing them. OK, the monarch at the time had to agree to those laws in the first place, but this is usually because they were forced to. At the end of the day, a monarch can only be the absolute boss if the people don’t revolt against them (as happened in the French Revolution). And what would stop the monarch being catholic is British law, which says that they can’t. Why? A little potted history will explain… this is going to be long but it needs to be so you get the full picture. King Henry VIII, as is well known, broke away from the pope and declared himself head of the English church so that he could get a divorce. One thing that went with this was that all high officials had to sign an oath of the King’s supremacy as head of the church, on pain of death as to refuse would be counted high treason. One famous man who refused t
