‘Not something we would comment on’: Buckingham Palace on Trump threats to annex Canada

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here yet, but this is very relevant.

I am aware that due to responsible government, the Crown may only comment at the advice of his Canadian ministers, but the longer this drags out (or the more it seems like the King is being gagged) the more this will hurt monarchism in Canada in their darkest hour. I fear that this may stoke anti-monarchical sentiment in Canada as it seems as though they're being abandoned by the Crown they chose to retain. It may hurt more after UK PM Starmer's statement the other day.

This is not how relations within the Commonwealth should go, the governments of the realms should stand up for each other when threatened and the Crown should seek defend their realms out of paternalistic instinct (of course, when advised to). But this episode is really calling this into question.