Should Queen Elizabeth II Abdicate?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The English throne has a history of using regencies, not abdications for elderly monarchs.  Also if Charles wants to avoid the throne, he has a very available out to him.  Given his association with Greek Orthodoxy via his father, if he converted to being an Orthodox Catholic, he would not be Protestant and thus under the Act of Settlement incapable of assuming the throne, but since he wouldn't have committed the heresy of becoming a Papist, Princes William and Henry could still take the throne.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

That's kinda not how it works. Coincidentally, she is also Queen of Australia, tyvm

The British monarch has the full constitutional right to abdicate the throne, and turn it over to the next in line, at any time during their reign.

Of course, abdication is seldom used.  The last time was in 1936 when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

Actually, they had to pass a law to allow Edward to abdicate.  Under the British system as it currently stands, abdication requires the consent of Parliament.  Still I think it will be some years before George VII takes over from his mother, even assuming he outlives her.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The English throne has a history of using regencies, not abdications for elderly monarchs.  Also if Charles wants to avoid the throne, he has a very available out to him.  Given his association with Greek Orthodoxy via his father, if he converted to being an Orthodox Catholic, he would not be Protestant and thus under the Act of Settlement incapable of assuming the throne, but since he wouldn't have committed the heresy of becoming a Papist, Princes William and Henry could still take the throne.

Actually, Orthodox Christianity does not violate the Act.  It is specific to Communion with Rome. Or a papist.  http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=1565208

I think the Orthodox Church was in Communion with the Anglican Communion, at least until they started ordaining women.

There are two separate provisions in the Act of Settlement that are relevant, the first, which would bar not only Charles but also Henry and William from the throne of Charles became a Roman Catholic is:

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However, a further restriction is that:

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That could be viewed as including other churches in full communion with the Church of England, such as those in the Anglican and Porvoo Communions and the Union of Utrecht.  However, relations with the Orthodox have been warmer than those with the Papists, but there never was full communion and the relationship has grown colder as the Orthodox and Roman churches have grown closer.

So if Charles became Greek Orthodox, that would bar him personally from the throne, but not his issue.