“Hello, old chap. I wonder, have you met my Navy?”
Comment on King's coat of arms to feature on new UK passports
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 weeks agoI honestly don’t know how that works. Does he even require one?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
milkisklim@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
He just waves a freshly minted 50 as he walks through passport control.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
“You see this 50 quid note. That’s my face on it. Questions? No? Good.”
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Passports are basically letters from heads of state requesting safe access for their citizen who holds that letter. The oldest record of such being recorded in the Old Testament book of Nehemiah.
Nehemiah 2:7-10
The front cover of your British passport should include the following:
I believe other countries have a similar note.
Over time, they got more and more standardised into identity documents, but that front cover is basically the core part.
So, the King doesn’t need a letter from himself asking for safe passage.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
Interesting. Thank you.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/…/story?id=42109699
I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to take your permission note I gave you to drive away. We can’t have you smashing into my deer.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I remember Prince Philip had one, he actually was pressured into giving it up after getting into a car accident.
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Now I know how The Onion feels around Trump news stories.