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>>xd+(OP)
Britain’s plan for when Queen Elizabeth II dies: POLITICO has obtained documents laying out Operation LONDON BRIDGE in granular detail

https://www.politico.eu/article/queen-elizabeth-death-plan-b...

>>mzs+22
There can't be very many people alive who have been to a state funeral of this magnitude, let alone actually planned one.

Is there another monarch alive with this many subjects?

>>ars+i4
I'd be surprised if there wasn't. Does QE get credit for former colonies like Canada though? If so that might help.

If you start counting what we'd usually call dictators, there definitely are bigger ones. The monarch/dictator line gets a little blurry and subjective/political I believe.

>>kadoba+P7
Elizabeth was the Queen of England, the Queen of Canada, the Queen of Australia, etc., etc., it's the definition of being a Commonwealth Realm. So, at the time of her death, she had about 150 million subjects.

Given that all the countries with more population than that have a constitution and not a sovereign, it's safe to say yesterday she was the most prolific monarch alive.