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Mr Corbyn, Mrs Windsor (and Mr Charles Windsor)

What is the potential significance of Jeremy Corbyn refusing to bend his knee to the Queen?

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Image: Sleeves Rolled Up, End Austerity Now/March on the State Opening of Parliament, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

His job title is Leader of the Opposition and MP for Islington North. To get his job, he must be elected.

Her job title, according to a proclamation she made in 1953, is Elizabeth II, (and I am not making this next bit up) 'by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith'. To get her job, she must be a descendant of Sophia, the eighteenth century Electress of Hanover next in line to the throne, and a Protestant.