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The constitution of the UK is unwritten. If the king tried it would be for the courts to decide on the legality.



That would run into the same problem Parliament ran into with the trial of Charles I: The root of all authority in the UK is the Crown. By challenging the authority of the Crown, the court is challenging its own authority to challenge anything.

Of course, that argument didn't really work fantastically with Charles I.




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