In an interview with CNN This Thursday (8), Ambassador and Emeritus Counselor of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (Cebri) Marcos Azambuja highlighted his admiration for Queen Elizabeth II, who died today after 70 years of reign.
According to the ambassador, Elizabeth II was extraordinary “for her constancy, for her discipline, for her rationality”. “I have feelings of reverence and affection for the queen. She soberly and courageously managed a diminished heritage and did so while maintaining fidelity to her values and love for her people.”
For Azambuja, what is happening today in England, to a greater extent, and in the world, “is the loss of a person with a gigantic presence on the international scene.” “Without Elizabeth, the world is a little smaller in terms of the presence of great personalities,” he laments. “Nobody with an immense trajectory, nor with her profile, will be produced again”, she concludes.
Azambuja recalls that the United Kingdom had Elizabeth I, which gave rise to the Elizabethan period. “This second Elizabeth was given a more arduous task, over the course of 70 years, which was the destruction of the[British]Empire, communities and Nations, and the diminution of England’s relative power in the world. It is easier to manage success than the shrinking of power”, evaluates Azambuja.
The ambassador also highlighted Queen Elizabeth’s performance not only as a monarch, but as a matriarch, noting that there is the royal family as it presents itself to the world, with all its ceremonial, its pomp and its circumstance, and a family behind it. , which is a family like any other family, with its conflicts, its insecurities.
“What Elizabeth II did in an extraordinary way was to keep her hand on the wheel. She led her family in a calm, steady manner. She is a disciplined woman, with herself, and while her children and grandchildren had the usual problems we all have. She was exemplary. I think it leaves a kind of void that will not be filled by anyone of that stature.”
The Councilor of Cebri also states that he does not imagine a reign of an eventual Elizabeth III with the same duration and prestige. “She was indeed a person who bridged the gap with the England of its heyday. England does not have its Empire today, it has fragments of it and the community is smaller. England left Europe, in my view a mistake, but she was impeccable in all this. She was the person who led the country and family with a firm and loving hand.”
Charles
About the eldest son, who assumes the throne as King Charles III at the age of 73, Azambuja evaluates that “it gave him time to mature. The new king arrives there built, done.” The ambassador recalls that Charles is a person with an environmental conscience, a legitimate and important basis for action. “He is an ardent supporter of the environment and this is a great cause.”
He believes that the long years of waiting for Charles – and Camilla Parker – were important for both of them to mature, and gave their successors time to learn the craft. “I am grateful to her [Elizabeth II] for longevity. And in that longevity she allowed her successors to get there more mature, wiser, and less likely to do things that would harm the Throne, England, and stability.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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