> Bear in mind the various loyalty swearing that goes on - MPs, Armed Forces, Police, is loyalty sworn first and foremost to the Monarch - implicitly a person a

> Bear in mind the various loyalty swearing that goes on - MPs, Armed Forces, Police, is loyalty sworn first and foremost to the Monarch - implicitly a person at the top of a heirarchy of class. After the New Model Army chopped off a previous monarch's head (they purged parliament and the remaining MPs passed legislation that found King Charles I guilty of treason) I can see why subsequent monarchs were somewhat keen to have an oath of Loyalty.