![]() The political prince - who has campaigned for decades on environmental, urban and architecture issues - now has to decide when his politicking will help or hinder the monarchy’s cause. She provided connective tissue to the body politic of many countries he chose the role of political gadfly. Reeling off virtually any statistic or anecdote about her serves to remind us of King Charles’ difficult position: Everything about his mother is a comparison he will struggle to separate from. The Commonwealth had barely started (in 1949) when Elizabeth became Queen - for 9 out of 10 people alive today, she is the only British monarch they have ever known.Īs Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has known the Queen since he was 5, noted: “She was our Queen for almost half of Canada’s existence.” For many of her former African and Asian colonies, later independent republics, she was their only monarch. She was replaced by the Queen - the institution we all know today, a vessel of a monarchy that outlives her, and which is the subject of debate, including because of the choices and relative unpopularity of her son. If she was merely Elizabeth Windsor, also yes.īut in many ways Elizabeth Windsor passed away 70 years ago. Is it crass or weird to talk about King Charles III’s future and that of British monarchy before Elizabeth II is even laid to rest?įor many Britons, the answer is yes. Stop and watch this hilarious story from her former bodyguard, about an American walking near Balmoral who had no idea who she was upon meeting her.ĬHARLES’ CHALLENGE - CHOOSING POLITICAL CONTOURS The Queen embodied a lost responsibility of service, a lost art of restraint and constancy in a world that now never rests. Perhaps we’re mourning something about ourselves that we may never fully comprehend. Queen Elizabeth II was “the rock on which modern Britain was built,” said Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss, but that doesn’t fully explain the outpouring of global emotion. Together we are mourning not only a person, and not necessarily an institution. A CONNECTION ACROSS COUNTRIES, GENERATIONS, ERAS, IS GONE. ![]()
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