Who has the higher authority the Queen or Pope?

Answer 1

Answer 1: The Prime Minister is the actual head of the executive, takes most of the key decisions and can (usually) rely on a majority in Parliament. The Queen is essentially a figure head.

Answer 2: No. The Queen can dismiss her Prime Minister with a single command and replace him or her with a person of her own choice. The Prime Minister has no such reciprocal power. This clearly puts the ultimate power in the hands of the monarch. The Prime Minister can essentially be regarded as the manager of the Queens's estate, whereas the Queen is the Head of State. The Queen has other powers that the Prime Minister does not have, such as single handedly being able to declare war on other countries, where the Prime Minister needs Parliamentary, and often UN approval.

Answer 3: According to the Constitution, all public power (executive, legislative and judicial) is created and commanded by the Queen. The Prime Minister is, in theory, a counsellor who advises her. In practice, it is a more complex situation, because the UK is a democracy, so public will must be law. So, more or less, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet take the executive decisions, but it is the Queen, through the Privy Council, who makes those decisions effective. She is not forced to accept all ministerial decisions, this is why she meets the Prime Minister once a week to discuss matters of State and advise him. This is the reason why the Executive is called Her Majesty's Government, to indicate it is her who governs and has the power, not the ministers. Nowadays the UK is a strong democracy, so the Queen will only interfere when the Government behave improperly.

Now, taking into the account the prime minister is appointed by the Queen and the Queen is also the head of Parliament and Courts, she has more authority than the PM.

Answer 2

That depends on the individual! Legally, the monarch has more power. On a spiritual level, most people defer to the Pope. It was this division of power that lead to the split of England away from the Catholic Church. Henry VIII refused to accept the rule of the Pope and split away.

Answer:

Comparing two things requires a commonality of some sort. In this case we have two elderly people who are the leaders of both a secular and a religious sector. The Pope is head of the Vatican (a City State) as well as the Roman Catholic Church, Queen Elizabeth is the ruler of England and has the constitutional title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England.

Although the Pope has a larger group of adherents to the religion he leads and the Queen has a larger army than the Pope which might point to a greater authority" of one or the other neither has any real impact over anyone who does not agree with their positions on any issue.

There are no authority-o-meters to compare the two so the question is unanswerable.

Answer 3

The royal family holds no political power. They are figureheads of a bygone era and their function is mostly ceremonial and charity. The Prime Minister holds more power.