King Charles has bypassed Parliament to freeze the powers of London’s mayor Sadiq Khan, by invoking a power called the “sovereign safeguard authority”, which has effectively halted the mayor’s control over the capital.
This is false. There is no such thing as the “sovereign safeguard authority” and the British monarch does not have the power to take control of a city from a democratically elected politician.
King Charles has not used an “ancient Royal power” to freeze the powers of London’s mayor, contrary to faked news reports being shared online.
A connected series of four videos circulating on social media, which together have gathered thousands of shares and ‘likes’, have made false claims about an intervention by the monarch in London’s politics.
A voiceover on one of the videos, which continues in another, says: “For the first time in modern British history the monarch stepped directly into politics, bypassing Parliament, and freezing the powers of London’s mayor Sadiq Khan.”
The subsequent videos claim that the King invoked an “ancient Royal power” called the “sovereign safeguard authority, effectively halting Khan’s control over the capital”.
They claim that a “leaked 14 page dossier from inside City Hall” revealed that advisors to Mr Khan were secretly discussing a “post-monarchy London”.
In response to this alleged dossier, the voiceover claims that King Charles is now preparing a “constitutional emergency speech” in which he will “name names” and expose a “...
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