That the king is above criminal law does not directly dispute the Magna Carta thread of this conversation. We take it for granted now, but it was a beginning o

That the king is above criminal law does not directly dispute the Magna Carta thread of this conversation. We take it for granted now, but it was a beginning of constitutional order - king and government should follow certain laws and rules for how to run the country. And the UK is after all a constitutional monarchy, no longer at mercy to the whims of an autocratic monarch.