Because the real one can't be lifted by mere mortals?
It's just a regular hammer called Mjolnir,supposed from Thor,not an actual hammer that has omnipotent powers,otherwise this thread would belong in ASB.Mjolnir could never be part of the crown jewels. While Liz might well be worthy to lift the Hammer of Thor, in the intervening thousand years we've clearly had many monarchs (frex John, Richard III, & Bloody Mary) who couldn't lift it if they had Superman and the Hulk together helping them. Besides, the Hammer would eventually find itself coming to the queen whether she wanted it to or not. Uru will always find its center.
Besides, won't people have been asking over the centuries why even the most worthy British monarch (The Virgin Queen) wasn't using Mjolnir to blast the Spanish Armada into toothpicks before Sir Francis Drake and Lord Howard even saw the top sails of the first approaching enemy galleon?
Its just that Mjolnir itself carries a specific history as an awesome weapon. As opposed to the Excalibur Sword, which is a simple sword AFTER its been drawn from the stone/handed over by the Lady of the Lake. Even the Holy Grail suggests only personal healing powers, not granting the power to fly or be able to command the elements!Mjolnir could never be part of the crown jewels. While Liz might well be worthy to lift the Hammer of Thor, in the intervening thousand years we've clearly had many monarchs (frex John, Richard III, & Bloody Mary) who couldn't lift it if they had Superman and the Hulk together helping them. Besides, the Hammer would eventually find itself coming to the queen whether she wanted it to or not. Uru will always find its center.
Besides, won't people have been asking over the centuries why even the most worthy British monarch (The Virgin Queen) wasn't using Mjolnir to blast the Spanish Armada into toothpicks before Sir Francis Drake and Lord Howard even saw the top sails of the first approaching enemy galleon?
EDIT: A fraudulent Mjolnir would have had to be introduced in the Dark Ages, so the validity of Thor's Hammer would have had almost religious overtones for England/Britain/Britannia.
You know the Armada did get torn to shreds by storms...and the Queen did meet her troops in armour on the beaches.
"I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a king and the backache of a God, my that bloody hammer is heavy..." Queen Elizabeth of England addressing the troops, the impromptu version was subsequently dressed up a bit for public consumption.
You know the Armada did get torn to shreds by storms...and the Queen did meet her troops in armour on the beaches.
"I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a king and the backache of a God, my that bloody hammer is heavy..." Queen Elizabeth of England addressing the troops, the impromptu version was subsequently dressed up a bit for public consumption.
* You have to wonder though, how they'd have made it through WW1 without the royal families of Russia, Germany or Austro-Hungary getting frustrated and putting those powers to good use themselves. This would make a very, very good concept for an ASB TL or a Shared Worlds RP game though...Not necessarily. My line of thinking was that Princess Alexandra of Denmark might have brought over an artefact purporting to be Mjolnir as a wedding gift, which could then have made its way into the coronation of Edward VII as a celebration of the Anglo-Saxon roots of the monarchy. It's not dramatically different to the legends linking Curtana to Tristain or Ogier the Dane, or the way in which the Stone of Scone was co-opted into English coronations.
