Global Courant 2023-05-09 22:24:19
Great Britain emerges from the pomp and circumstance of the Coronation to rediscover a country in crisis, with a very high cost of living and too many people who could not pay for electricity and gas last month. Coronation expenses will escalate to 252 million dollars.
The Republican militants, who protested with “not my king” or “parasite king” signs, were arrested at the ceremony and later, the police had to apologize. He sent a commissioner to the homes of the detainees on Monday night, with two policemen, to present their excuses and return their posters.
It was one of the scandals of the ceremony because the right to demonstrate is sacred in the kingdom.
Anti-monarchy protesters with banners reading “Not my king”. Photo: Reuters
King Charles III and the new Queen Camilla left for Sandringham Palace to recover from three days of coronation celebrations. The royal agenda of the other members of the Slim monarchy is set in motion.
“Rebranding”, an urgency
The medieval and pompous royal ceremonies in London have left an urgency: the “rebranding” of the House of Windsor.
An urgent institutional modernization, a change in an obsolete ceremony and a new mission for the king, to replace the lost mystery and stoicism of the 70-year reign of Elizabeth II, if they do not want to be confined to unpopularity, inconsequence and to the pages from Hello magazine.
Camilla and Carlos III during the last acts of celebration for his coronation. Photo: Kin Cheung / AFP
With the medieval uniforms, the gilding of the carriages, and the spirited and magnificent horses, it is not enough.
With a 74-year-old king there will be no big birthdays, no jubilees, no weddings, no baptisms to celebrate.
The weight of the novelty will fall on the princes of Wales, William and Kate and their three boys, George, Charlotte and Louis, who before the departure of the Sussexes, suddenly and unexpectedly entered the royal service, to try to delight the subjects .
The weight of the novelty will fall on the princes of Wales, William and Kate and their three boys. Photo: Jonathan Brady/AFP
William and Kate are going to have a great responsibility in front of the Royal House. It is the young people who will have to travel far away, replacing two elderly kings and they will not be able to maintain this public fight between brothers, who are the sons of the king.
William will have to reconcile with Harry and possibly it will be Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, who makes it possible.
It will be the evolution from prince to royal heir, to statesman, without childishness or obstinacy. Although this does not mean that Harry and Meghan, the Dukes of Sussex, actively return to the House of Windsor, but that they do stop seeing them as enemies.
The Prince of Wales, William, greets a woman during a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. Photo: Jonathan Brady/AFP
Harry is fed up with how he is treated when he returns to London. Those who know him believe that this weekend was his last concession to his father. He can be an uncomfortable witness after so much humiliation.
The problem of the former colonies
The Commonwealth will be the big problem to face next. The English islands of the Caribbean want, one by one, to abandon Carlos III as head of state and become republics. The queen is no more. The neo Empire died with her.
Since their visit in 2022, William and Kate have not returned to the Caribbean, after they faced in the Bahamas “the demand for a formal apology from the Royal Family for their crimes against humanity.” That is, the slave trade and its benefits.
William and Kate during their visit to Nassau, in 2022. Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP
Until they find a strategy to solve this problem with their colonies, the Royal Family will have enormous difficulties in making their visits abroad.
The role of the monarchy in this modern world needs careful planning and a new model of approach to the population.
These “retro” and “vintage” tours, with Kate, Princess of Wales, dressed as a 1940s Vogue model reminiscent of Queen Elizabeth II, are over. They only irritate or cause laughter.
Kate, Princess of Wales, dressed as a 1940’s Vogue model reminiscent of Queen Elizabeth II. Photo: AP
The problems to solve for the Royals are how to deal with the problems of slavery and indigenous people in their trips to the former colonies.
Especially when the kingdom does not want to pay compensation, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned King Charles, in a strong incident between both. Surely there must be institutional changes in the role of the monarchy, in a kingdom with an unwritten Constitution.
Serve and not be served, the new mission
In a personal written message to the nation released on Monday, Her Majesty and the Queen pledged to rededicate themselves to public service, after completing three days of celebrations. Serve and not serve.
The King said: “As Coronation weekend draws to a close, my wife and I just wanted to share our heartfelt thanks to all those who have helped make this such a special occasion.”
With the message, the new portraits of the sovereigns were distributed: Carlos, overwhelmed not only by the weight of the crown and the new smiling queen because he never imagined it. Like in a Walt Disney film, where the bad guys win.
Camilla was photographed next to the king. Photo: AFP
The King was captured in the official portrait in full regalia: wearing the Imperial State Crown, holding the Orb and Scepter with Cross, and dressed in his royal purple robes and Toga of State, seated on a Throne Chair in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace.
Camilla was photographed alongside the king, and also in a solo portrait, wearing Queen Mary’s crown, the train of her long embroidered robe spread out in front of her.
The hard-working royal family, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Edinburghs, the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duke of Kent, the Gloucesters and Princess Alexandra, were also pictured alongside the King and Queen in the images. by Hugo Burnand.
The king and queen, in an official portrait with the working royal family. Photo: AFP
But there were two missing in those photos for posterity: Prince Andrew, banned by the Epstein Case, and Prince Harry, the king’s son, and self-exiled in California.
The same thing happened in the greeting on the balcony, with the mere presence of the Royal Working Family. But there were “infiltrators”. There were the Middleton family and Mrs Elliot, Camila’s sister. An arbitrariness that will infuriate the “forbidden”.
Harry at Buckingham Palace
When the Royal Family took these two historic photos, Prince Harry entered Buckingham Palace for the last time.
Prince Harry is seen outside Westminster Abbey, after the coronation ceremony, in London Britain, May 6, 2023. David Levene/Pool via REUTERS
It was after leaving the abbey and being demoted to the third row of the non-working Royal Family. He did not see his father or his brother, who did not speak to him during the ceremony either.
She went to the bathroom and left for Heathrow airport, in jacquet and medals, to catch a plane and be on time for her son Archie’s birthday party in Montecito, who was not invited to the celebrations.
The church service marked the first time the Duke had appeared with his family since the publication of his Spare memoirs. He did not agree to go to lunch at Buckingham Palace or to the concert.
The church service marked the first time the duke had appeared with his family since the publication of his memoirs. Photo: AP
Harry’s decision to attend the coronation pleased the king, who had hoped to have both of his sons at the ceremony.
While the Prince of Wales had a formal role in the proceedings, the Duke, who in other circumstances may also have been seen paying homage, was a member of the congregation.
But this Tuesday Harry’s trial against the tabloid The Mirror begins in Great Britain for listening to his phone and violating his privacy.
One of the three trials pending, which includes The Sun and The Daily Mail. He will have his statement in court in June. He will be extremely uncomfortable for the king and queen because Harry will say that they leaked her intimacies to publicly rehabilitate Camila and make her sovereign, after having been her father’s lover all her life.
In 2019 Carlos asked him to stop the trial. Harry refused.
Harry, 38, has been selected as a “test case” in the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) trial over hacking allegations, along with actors Michael Turner and Nikki Sanderson, as well as Fiona Wightman, the comedian’s ex-wife. Paul Whitehouse.
The Duke’s claim involves 25 private investigators and 33 news articles, published between 1996 and 2010. Harry is scheduled to testify in early June, a pretrial hearing was reported Monday.
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