but that same Monarch is but a rubber stamp that will happily sign into law every bit of Lib-Lab-Con insanity that passes across her desk without a moments thought for the consequences.
I doubt it. If you want to really look back to when British monarchs had absolute say you would have to look back to King John before he signed the Magna Carta. The last monarch to rule without parliament was James I. His boy tried it but they lopped his head off.