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I would be extremely shocked if this was actually the case. Do you have any source for this claim?
by jlangenauer 12y ago
I would be extremely shocked if this was actually the case. Do you have any source for this claim?
- hansjorg 12y agoI might me misremembering it, but I think this was told in the documentary Stealing a Nation [1]. According to Wikipedia, there is a commissioner with the Foreign Office that acts as administrator, but that commissioner is directly appointed by the Queen [2]. 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_a_Nation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing_a_Nation 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_British_Indian_Ocean_Territory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_the_British_India...
- M2Ys4U 12y ago>directly appointed by the Queen While this may be technically true, the monarch's powers (the royal prerogatives[0]) are almost exclusively exercised on the advice of the prime minister/cabinet. In other words, while the power officially rests with the Queen, the UK government is the one to wield it in practice. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative