As we all prepare to cast our votes in the 2019 General Election, there are a group of people who won't be heading out to the polling station - the Royal Family.
While many believe the Queen and her relatives aren't allowed to put an X on the ballot paper this isn't actually the case.
The truth is, the Queen can vote. She is eligible and perfectly within her rights to go out and have her say.
But you probably won't spot her down the local polling station, and the same goes for Prince Charles, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and other members of The Firm.
The monarch is entitled in law to cast a ballot in general elections, but royal tradition sees her choose to abstain.
"By convention the Queen doesn't vote, rather than because of a legal impediment," says an Electoral Commission spokesman.
Historian and author Sarah Gristwood says it's "consistently been a policy of this Queen, since her early days as head of state, to stay completely above the fray.
"It follows on from a major reinvention of the monarchy following the end of World War One and the establishment of the House of Windsor."
Even though she doesn't vote, the Queen does have a very important role to play after the results have been announced.
The leader of the winning party will travel to Buckingham Palace where they will have a meeting with the Monarch during which she will ask them to form a Government on her behalf.
Boris Johnson plans to hold a stripped-back Queen's Speech just days before Christmas if he wins.
Similar to the one we saw after the snap 2017 election, it will be a much quicker affair without the usual pomp and ceremony.
In 2017, the monarch arrived in a car rather than the guilded carriage she usually uses for the journey from Buckingham Palace to Parliament.
And for the first time since 1974 she wore "day dress" and a hat rather than robes of state and Imperial State Crown to deliver her speech.
The crown was still very much a part of proceedings though - travelling in its own car to Parliament from the Tower of London, where it is kept as part of the Crown Jewels collection.
