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Pointless pageantry, but whatever floats his royal boat.
In all fairness, I don't think he really cares considering he cant have a passport in the first place.
Yeah, it's more about updating to the current emblems, which would happen anyway. Sounds like they are updating the passports and doing this at the same time. If the King was that bothered he would have made them change it when they altered the text from "her majesty" to "his majesty".
I honestly don't know how that works. Does he even require one?
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.
Kinda the same with driving licences. The King probably had one as Prince of Wales, but Queen Elizabeth II I don't believe ever had one. She didn't need one as they are essentially permission from the King/Queen to operate the car.
Interesting. Thank you.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/prince-charles-involved-car-crash-deer-queens-balmoral/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."
I remember Prince Philip had one, he actually was pressured into giving it up after getting into a car accident.
Now I know how The Onion feels around Trump news stories.
“Hello, old chap. I wonder, have you met my Navy?”
Since all British passports are issued in the name of the Sovereign and he has the Crown he just sort of waves a hand and other countries pretend that's alright since he can't really holiday to the south of France.
Source
He just waves a freshly minted 50 as he walks through passport control.
"You see this 50 quid note? That's my face on it. Questions? No? Good."
Read the article. They're just updating the passport as a whole. So it makes sense they'll change the crown on the cover to reflect the King's arms.