PREROGATIVES OF BRITISH CROWN

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Royal Prerogatives

In theory, the Queen is the sovereign head of the State for all actions, she has unlimited powers. But in practice she exercises them with the advice of her Ministers. They are her prerogatives.

Dicey defines prerogatives of the Crown as “the residue of discretionary power left in the hands of the Crown, whether such power is, in fact, exercised by the King himself or his ministers.” Royal prerogatives should be distinguished from royal powers. Powers of the Crown are conferred on the King by the laws of statutes of the Parliament, but the prerogatives are those powers which the King has exercised under the Common Law and are still left in his hands. 

PREROGATIVES OF BRITISH CROWN

Hence, the prerogatives can be limited or reduced by the Parliament. But the powers of the Crown are increased, for Parliament confers new powers on it by passing new laws. Some of the royal prerogatives are: “The King can do no wrong”, which means that he is not answerable to any law court in the country for any act, but that his Ministers are responsible for all acts of the King. “The King never dies” for when one King dies, he is immediately succeeded by another, without any interregnum between the two.

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