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More family, less work: how Queen Elizabeth changed after Philip’s death

It was the April 21, 1947 when the Queen Elizabeth, still a princess at the time, pronounced dal South Africa his first public speech, addressing his own people directly future subjects: “I will dedicate my entire life, long or short, at your service“. A promise he kept with commitment and sacrifice, making his work a kind of religion: it never stopped, at most it slowed down.

Here, today is going through one of those moments, in which he seems to have taken his foot off the accelerator. Only this time, with the 96 years old to be done in April and on Platinum Jubilee on the horizon, braking brings with it a series of necessary reflections: the first, more obvious and natural, is linked to the recent disappearance of Prince Philip, his “strength”, companion of adventures (and battles) for over 70 years.

See it alone, curved, with his head bowed, during the funeral of the beloved husband, can be considered a kind of watershed in the path on the throne of His Majesty. As was normal, in fact, she took a period away from the spotlight to mourn, then slowly came back to be seen in public, between family meetings and institutional events. But with a decidedly mood different.

Hit The stick with which she presented herself to Westminster Abbey for the centenary of the Royal British Legion, as well as tugging at the ears international leaders on the eve of Cop 26 on the climate emergency: “They talk a lot, but they do not actWere the words captured in the Welsh Parliament, cataloged as off the air although – in all probability – Elizabeth was aware that they would come out.

One more queen free? Perhaps. For sure he forfeits last minute al Cenotafio on the occasion of Remembrance Sunday Service indirectly tells a lot: His Majesty, in fact, should only have look out to a window and watch the ceremony. And yet, despite it there great expectation for his return later the night in the hospital and the three weeks of rest prescribed by doctors, he decided to jump.

“He has a back problem»Wrote by Buckingham Palace. A skimpy note that initially aroused worry: «The queen is fine but at her age it’s not as easy as it used to be»Said Carlo, replying to the touching message that the sovereign sent to the national assembly of the Church of England: “None of us it can slow down the passage of time»He wrote, also referring to Philip.

“It’s been more than 50 years since my husband and I we attended the very first meeting of Synod“. Elizabeth is well aware of the importance of such memories, for this he continues to put his family at the top of priorities: for nothing in the world, in fact, it would have been lost baptism of his last two great grandchildren August Brooksbank e Lucas Tindall, fhe respectively of Eugenie of York e Zara Philips.

And now it is rumored that she is already involved in organizing the Natale a Sandringham, a tradition that she particularly cares about and that she brings together at the same table the top figures of the Windsor house. Moreover this year, after the forced break due to anti-Covid measures, it also has a symbolic value: to go ahead and put the difficulties behind you, including bereavement. Which certainly doesn’t mean forget.

In reverse. On closer inspection, it seems to be right the memory of Philip to guide some recent choices of the queen: more cautious, of course, but even freer. It is always projected towards the future: who knows that in His Majesty’s behavior today there is as well an element of strategy who is already looking at the years to come.

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