{"id":10074,"date":"2019-03-17T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/?p=10074"},"modified":"2019-03-18T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:24:28","slug":"queen-does-not-require-a-british-passport-when-traveling-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/queen-does-not-require-a-british-passport-when-traveling-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen does not require passport when traveling abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth II does not have\/require a <b>passport,<\/b>\u00a0when traveling abroad, making it <strong>superfluous<\/strong> for her to hold one, as British passports are issued in the name of <strong>Her Majesty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first page of British passports contains another representation of the Arms, together with the following wording:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Her Britannic Majesty&#8217;s Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10076\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10076\" src=\"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hermajesty.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hermajesty.png 326w, https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/hermajesty-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a British passport is issued in the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/passports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Her Majesty<\/a>, it is unnecessary for The Queen to possess one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All other members of the Royal Family, including The Duke of Edinburgh and The Prince of Wales, have passports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first british passports known as <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/2018\/09\/20\/history-and-origins-of-british-passport\/\">safe conduct papers<\/a> were first issued in 1414<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her Majesty\u2019s Passport Office came into existence in May 2013 produces all UK passports. \u00a0\u00a0HM Passport Office is the sole issuer of UK passports and responsible for civil registration services through the General Register Office. \u00a0<abbr title=\"HM Passport Office\">HM Passport Office<\/abbr> is part of the <a class=\"brand__color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/home-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Home Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of \u2018Her Majesty\u2019s\u2019 in the title recognises that passports are the property of the Crown, bear the Royal Coat of Arms and are issued under the Royal Prerogative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The design of British passports will change in 2019 when the UK leaves the EU. From late 2019, blue passports will start to be issued.\u00a0Passports issued from 30 March 2019 will continue to be burgundy, but they will no longer include the words \u2018European Union\u2019 on the front cover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, HM Passport office issued close to <strong>50 million<\/strong> passports in the name of Her Majesty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth II does not have\/require a passport,\u00a0when traveling abroad, making it superfluous for her to hold one, as British passports are issued in the name of Her Majesty. &nbsp; The first page of British passports contains another representation of the Arms, together with the following wording: &nbsp; &#8216;Her Britannic Majesty&#8217;s Secretary of State requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshipbyinvestment.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}