Thank you everyone for my first ever thread title, proposed by Hamster
@Scotch Mist .
Thanks
@Chita for starting the thread.
Reading the new Letters Patent, there's now no mention that you have to be UK resident to be a CoS. It simply says that somone can act as a CoS
provided he is in the UK when the Monarch is absent from the UK. So Harald could come over and get stuck in while KC is in Samoa. The Stoat is now on the same footing as Anne and the others.
An overseas resident can come over to BP and stand in for the Monarch and take part in decision-making even if they have no grasp of the facts. That Harald is unlikely to be called upon isn't the point. Like he's in the LoS, it's not good enough, as things can change in the blink of an eye.
All protections should have been put in place, but the Stoat's feelings come before the safety of the Monarchy.
Well done for finding this
@ChipDex . We'd never have known.