Example, the supreme court of Manitoba is now called “The Court of King’s Bench” – but the URL still says queen: https://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca/court-of-queens-bench/

Double takes abound. There should be a non-gendered form to use. “Court of Monarch’s Bench” or something ;)

  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
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    I think the gender neutral that gets used the most is “crown”, but maybe that has a different connotation.

    More importantly, though, Queens are rare, we just happened to had one during a huge period of technological advances, etc.

    But we already have a king, his heir the kind lined up, and that king already has a male heir. Obviously shit can happen, but we’re pretty far from another queen in any of our lifetimes…

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      We also had one while Canada was being set up, so like all the treaties we signed were between her majesty and the various indigenous groups. So a lot of historical stuff is queen this and queen that, and then combine that with the past 70 years of queening and you get a very significant proportion of Canada’s history being queenly

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      Odds should be about 50/50 now that succession is gender neutral by default.

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        Barring anything substantial changing we’ll have kings for at least the next 70 years (George will be about 80 by then)