A tribute to the one who, 74 years after marriage, still makes the queen get butterflies in her stomach. As usual, Elizabeth has entrusted to the brooch one of those thoughts that she is not allowed to express aloud. Doctors advised her not to leave windsor castle but that did not stop her from playing with cross-references in the recording sent to the leaders gathered at Glasgow per la Cop26.
Appeared in video message to United Nations climate conference hosted in the Scottish city, the sovereign has carefully chosen the set in which to deliver her speech by combining the jewel pinned on the green dress with the photograph placed on the table behind her.
The shot portrays the beloved Filippo, who passed away last April at the age of 99, immersed in a cloud of butterflies. That image had been released from the Instagram page of the Royal Family a few days after his death recalling the ancient commitment of the Duke of Edinburgh towards the environment.
It was in fact the first president of the British WWF since 1961, the year of its foundation, to 1982, to follow the international president of the organization from 1981 to 1996 and finally president emeritus until his death. In 1988, precisely by virtue of his assignment, he visited the reserve of Sierra Chincua, about 100 kilometers from Mexico City, the place where the monarch butterfly migrates from Canada in cold seasons. That trip served to support efforts against deforestation that at that time was threatening the survival of the species with that name so dear to him.
In a few weeks, on November 20, the royal couple would celebrate their wedding anniversary. That brooch is one of the gifts received on that occasion, gift from the Countess of Onslow: the name by which it is known is in fact Onslow Butterfly brooch. The diamond and ruby ​​piece was not used much by the queen for a good part of her life. One of his first appearances on the public stage dates back only to 2010 when in a private audience a Buckingham Palace received the president of Rwanda Paul Kagame.
In January 2012 Elisabetta took the brooch out of the jewelry box for a meeting at Sandringham’s Women’s Institute in Norfolk and then, after an abundant seven years, we saw it again on the occasion of a religious service in Scotland during the sovereign’s summer stay. The last time the queen chose that jewel for a virtual meeting with made news Agnes Oswaha, the ambassador of the Republic of South Sudan, on June 8 last year: two days later it would be the 100th birthday of her beloved husband. “None of us will live forever,” said the queen at one point in her speech speaking of the environmental emergency but if there is something that will never die, that is Elizabeth’s love for her Philip. And she points it out to us every time with those gestures that count more than any word.
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