Eli5: What is the role of the Royal family, politically?

Question

Do they have a say in making laws or any diplomatic decision of the country?

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Answer 1

In political theory, every sovereign nation has a source of “legitimate” governmental power, aka “authority.” For Constitutional Democracies (the US for example), the legitimate source of authority is the people being governed who give that power to the duly elected representative government. For monarchies, the legitimate source of authority is the royal family. Even if the government chooses to utilize a constitutional democracy to exercise legitimate authority such as used in Japan.