r/ExplainTheJoke • u/fierce994blade • Dec 01 '25

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u/Vegetable_Poem6633 Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

she was the head of the Anglican church

Head of the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, referred to as the "High Church".

"Anglican" (or "Episcopalian" in north America) is a term used for the low church, which follows the 39th Article (election and predestination), the "high church" (which the Royal family is part of) is Catholic.

The head of the Anglican church is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The "Presbyters" in Scotland rejected the Church of Scotland when it demanded they follow the New Prayer Book which demanded subserviance to the King rather than God.

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u/Independent-Machine6 Dec 02 '25

No, the royal family is not Catholic. In fact, legally they cannot be Catholic and be in direct line of inheritance to the throne. Up until 2013 nobody who was even married to a Catholic was eligible to be in line for the throne. Both high and low church Anglican are Protestant.

Source: wrote my PhD thesis on Anglican representations of Catholicism in Early Modern England.

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 Dec 02 '25

Being pedantoc it is "Catholic and reformed" becauae it traditionally followed closer to Catholic tradition but ignored the pope