The death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 a year ago was the perfect climax to that serial that is the Windsor family life. It is not only that the monarch, faithful to the end, died in the precise year in which she was celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, but that, as happens when the protagonist of a series or soap opera dies, her disappearance brought to a culmination the different family plots that then they were open.
Prince Harry, for example, blew up the last bridges with Buckingham Palace by publishing his memoirs and personalizing his confrontation with the royal family in the figure of his brother, Prince William, whom he had no qualms about blaming for having given him a blow. beating despite already being the new heir as Prince of Wales.
Prince Andrew of York lost his main supporter in the palace, as well as a mother and a queen, and was relegated to the third level by his brother, King Charles III, from whom no one expects him to be rescued anymore.
Camilla had a better end than the two previous ones: she became queen instead of princess consort, as for a time the palace assured that the new king’s wife, once one of the most hated women in her country, would be known, so as not to to hurt the memory of his eternal rival, Princess Diana.
Princess Anne became the most beloved member of the royal family by the British, who see her as a worthy heir to Queen Elizabeth II for her dedication and character (at the same time as one of the most discreet, Princess Anne is who usually assumes the most official acts throughout the year), while the loyalty of Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex was recognized with the Duchy of Edinburgh, a title that Queen Elizabeth II wanted to become hers after the death of her husband Prince Philip left it vacant.
And then there is Carlos III, who at 73 years old, and already the oldest (and patient) heir in the history of the British monarchy, finally came to the throne. On May 6, he was crowned in Westminster Abbey, in a ceremony followed by millions of spectators and as full of emotion as the finale of a good series.
Now, what has happened since then in the British court?
Well, very little, or at least very little that has aroused the interest of the public. Unlike fictional characters, of whom we do not hear from at the end of a series or a book, the Windsors have continued with their agendas and the press continues to report their actions and details of their lives despite the fact that As we have seen, their narrative arcs were closed after the death of Elizabeth II, but the stories that are published about them do not have as much punch as before.
2023-09-07 02:01:36
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