Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Do you believe that The Great Seal Of England should be shared with Her Majesty's Ministers or Her alone?

The Great Seal of the Realm is the chief seal of the Crown, used to show the monarch's approval of important State doents.In today's constitutional monarchy, the Sovereign acts on the advice of the Government of the day, but the seal remains an important symbol of the Sovereign's role as Head of State.The practice of using this seal began in the reign of Edward the Confessor in the eleventh century, when a double-sided metal matrix with an image of the Sovereign was used to make an impression in wax for attachment by ribbon or cord to Royal doents.The seal meant that the monarch did not need to sign every official doent in person; authorisation could be carried out instead by an appointed officer. In centuries when few people could read or write, the seal provided a pictorial expression of Royal approval which all could understand...God save Our Sovereign...

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