Good point - that really marks the intervention of the secular parliament in determining the course of the monarchy (and, as you say, the commoners in parliament as well - it's not just a council of nobles deciding what to do), irrespective of intrinisic godly kingliness (lol terribly sentence, but you know what I mean!). It's interesting how that became more dominant with the accession of William & Mary: curious fact is that they refused to do the king's touch malarkey for their scrofula-ridden subjects (Anne did, but she was the last). I suppose it's at this point, and with the Hanoverians, that the monarchs were truly only ruling at Parliament's choice and no-one could really pretend otherwise.
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Date: 2013-09-30 08:58 pm (UTC)Sorry, that was all very rambly and incoherent!