Yes, but I think it's important here to make the distinction in type of "criticism" being made - namely, one which is made in the House of Lords and refers to matters of policy, or in connection with a bill being debated, and then outside of the House of Lords, by members of the monarch's personal family, and which are of a personal nature and highly damaging or slanderous, or acts or incidents by members of the family which similarly affect the public integrity of the monarchy and the living family that represents that monarchy. Last but not least, remember also that the present day monarch takes the stance of "Never complain, never explain" in the fact of a controversy, whereas Henry VIII's reaction might more likely be "Off with his/her head!"
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Perhaps, and perhaps not. In my perception, what you state is the ostensible reason for the Bill but...it also certainly opens up the future right of the sovereign to remove a title within the family that they themselves granted initially. What can be given, can and should just as logically be easily removed.
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Hm, isn't the reason why the Sovereign doesn't have the right to take back a peerage that the peers should be free to criticize the Sovereign without risking to lose the peerage? (Henry VIII had the habit of doing so. I don't know if he was an exception.)
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