In a historic move, Queen Elizabeth II found herself at the center of British politics by granting Prime Minister Boris Johnson permission to suspend Parliament. The move prompted fierce backlash in the U.K.
“At a secretive meeting in Balmoral Castle, the fairy tale royal residence in Scotland, ministers sent by Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked the queen, 93, to suspend Parliament for a month,” reports NBC News. “The world’s longest-serving living monarch had little choice but to agree to ‘prorogue’ Parliament, the formal name for the suspension. And this has triggered what many across the political spectrum say is an unprecedented constitutional crisis that threatens the values of British democracy.”
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