become considered as indispensable to the smooth working of the machinery of government The monarchy, followed by the legislative, executive and judicial organs of government will be discussed in turn.
  The monarchy is the most ancient secular institution in the United Kingdom, with a continuous history stretching back ova a thousand years. The monarchy is hereditary and the Present title to the Crown derives from provisions of the Act of Settlement of 1701 which secured the Protestant succession.
  Queen Elizabeth II, who succeeded to the throne in 1952, is in addition to being an integral part of the legislature, the head of the judiciary, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Crown and the temporal head of the established Church of England.
  The monarchy in the United Kingdom has evolved over the centuries from absolute personal authority to the present constitutional form by which the Queen reigns but does not rule. Her Majesty s government governs in the name of the Queen who must.act on the advice of her ministers. The Queen summons, prorogues (dismisses at the end of a session) and dissolves Parliament; she usually ?P^ «? sessions of Parliament with a speech from the throne in which the major governmental policies are outlined. Prerogative rights are of legislative executive and judicial character. The Monarch must give the Royal Assent before a Bill which has passed all its stages in both Houses ot Parliament can become a legal enactment

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