{"id":40871,"date":"2019-09-17T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40871"},"modified":"2019-09-17T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:22:12","slug":"a-high-stakes-brexit-court-case-could-force-the-queen-to-pick-a-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40871","title":{"rendered":"A high-stakes Brexit court case could force the Queen to pick a side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>The United Kingdom, once a beacon of political and diplomatic stability, has <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/09\/12\/uk\/the-uk-is-having-its-trump-moment-intl-gbr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">descended into chaos<\/a> since it voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/17\/uk\/non-brits-guide-to-brexit-update-gbr-trnd-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">leave the European Union<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">That referendum opened a seemingly unbridgeable divide that has <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/09\/14\/uk\/boris-johnson-is-trapped-in-a-brexit-prison-he-helped-build-intl-gbr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">led to political deadlock<\/a> and stretched Britain&#8217;s famously unwritten constitution to its limits. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Supreme Court will try to pick a way forward this week, but ultimately, it could come down to Queen Elizabeth II to pick side. And that&#8217;s something the Queen will be desperate to avoid.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)The United Kingdom, once a beacon of political and diplomatic stability, has descended into chaos since it voted to leave the European Union in 2016.That referendum opened a seemingly unbridgeable divide that has led to political deadlock and stretched Britain&#8217;s famously unwritten constitution to its limits. The Supreme Court will try to pick a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}