Queen Elizabeth II May Attend Another Public Event, Raising Doubts About Her Platinum Jubilee Crown
Prince Charles had to replace his mother, Elizabeth II, in Tuesday’s reading of the Queen’s Speech, the most important ceremony on the British parliamentary calendar. Queen Elizabeth, who turned 96, is suffering from “episodes of immobility” according to her doctors, which have prevented her from attending several events in recent months and advise against leading the event on Monday.
The Queen’s Speech is a ritualistic representation of the United Kingdom’s constitutional idea of being governed by the sovereignty of ‘the Queen in Parliament’. It is illustrated every year with the splendor of medieval carriages, bugles and costumes. The monarch opens the parliamentary course and, on the throne of the House of Lords, reads the program of laws written by the government.
The Queen read the speech with her son Charles in 2021, a month after the death of her husband Philip of Edinburgh. He had spoken it every year of his long reign, except three times, when pregnancies kept him in the palace. This Tuesday marked the first time that the monarch had not taken part in the ceremony for 59 years.
Charles was accompanied in the carriage and at the ceremony by his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and by William, Duke of Cambridge. During their tour of the halls and Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster, they walked behind a page wearing the Imperial Crown of State, on a pillow he held in his hands. It weighs more than a kilo and Elizabeth II stopped wearing it in 2021.
Carlos did not sit on the throne of the Chamber that once welcomed the aristocrats and is now overrun by gentlemen of all ranks. During the annual ceremony, an usher greets members of the House of Commons, who walk into the adjacent Lords’ Chamber, whose seats are often also occupied by ambassadors from St James’s Court.
Carlos watched with apparent melancholy the crown, which had been laid out on the pillow on a couch during the speech. The queen’s successive denunciations, who have presided over only the religious service in her husband’s memory in recent months, cast doubt on whether she can join the acts of her platinum jubilee, seven decades of reign. The main events are scheduled for the first weekend of June.
There is an air of regency in the UK, with the Prince of Wales expanding his activities as the representative of the crown and Camilla multiplying her activities as well. Guillermo and Catalina have been criticized in the past for not attending many ceremonial acts, but now they are replacing the Queen, Carlos and Camilla, who are busier, and gaps left by Enrique and Meghan’s departure to the United States.
In the Queen’s speech on Tuesday, the scent of the regency was sharper, as the absence of Elizabeth II, whose reign is celebrated for her constant and methodical devotion, in the case of this ceremony can only be justified by an aspect of his health. , whose improvement at his age seems unlikely. Prince Charles is in charge of the British monarchy, on the advice of his mother.
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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will present the law in the coming days to repeal the controversial Irish Protocol, according to what was leaked to ‘The Times’. It would pave the way for a vigorous confrontation with the European Union so that Northern Ireland’s trade unionists participate in restoring autonomy in the region.
The outline of the government’s planned legislation, unveiled on Tuesday, included vague pledges of aid and the promise of a ten-year overdue law on the legacy of violent conflict in the region. Truss leaks that an unannounced law will be presented in a few days and other media say the cabinet is divided.
In the House of Commons, Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), was asked by a Labor MP what the Prime Minister was telling them, in his speech at the party conference in the fall of 2019, as he was finalizing his negotiations on the ‘Brexit’ with the EU. “That there would be borders between Great Britain and Northern Ireland just above his dead body,” Donaldson replied. “We are simply asking the Prime Minister to keep what he has promised us.”
Source: La Verdad
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