Cyril, the new Jimmy...

[spider]

Definitions
verb
Word forms: chooses, choosing, chose, chosen

to select (a person, thing, course of action, etc) from a number of alternatives

From Collins English dictionary.

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I have looked at several on-line dictionaries and they all say the same.

Why does the UK Government website make this distinction between what happened in 1957 and 1963 and what happened afterwards if there is no difference?

[Essex Lad]

I have no idea but Harold Macmillan, Randolph Churchill, D R Thorpe, Iain McLeod, Lord Hailsham, David Dutton and Ben Pimlott and the National Archives all say that the Queen did not personally choose Home in the way you seem to believe.

[spider]

To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies* ?well they would, wouldn?t they?.

*she said this at about the same time HM was choosing Alec Douglas-Home as the next PM.

[Essex Lad]

Well, it was the same year that the all-male Magic Circle were choosing AD-H I'll give you that.

[max_tranmere]

I intend reading more of the Queen's apparent meddling in who becomes leader. One very infamous event of meddling, although this was done by her representative in that place, was when the Prime Minister of Australia was sacked in the 1970's. This event was, and still is, known as The Dismissal and still causes anger there today. The Republican movement gathered a lot of momentum after that and is still strong today, stronger than it might otherwise have been but for this event.