The British Royal House has launched the protocol machinery to start the uncertain era after the reign of Elizabeth II. Carlos III, her son and her successor, travels to London this morning after completing the mandatory twelve-hour mourning after the death of the sovereign. In the British capital he will attend an official act in the chapel of St. James and later he will offer his first speech as king, which will be broadcast on television. This afternoon he is also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Liz Truss.
The image of both talking for the first time in their new responsibilities to the country is remarkably unique. The two face a period full of uncertainty and challenges. Carlos III will occupy the same institutional space as his mother, but his popularity is much lower and he will be forced to make the inevitable comparisons and value judgments. In fact, there will be few sovereigns comparable to Elizabeth II in her ability to access the heart of society and keep the monarchy alive. She is the sovereign who has made good the saying “I am a Republican, but Elizabethan.”
For her part, the prime minister is aware that she is also facing, like the new monarch, a changing country, with a strong generational transformation and, above all, immersed in a multitude of protests due to the crisis. Far from that vigorous country of 1926, this is the United Kingdom of the energy crisis, inflation and Brexit, over which Liz Truss tries to govern with a first announcement that she will make a historic disbursement of 115,000 million euros to curb the gas and electricity prices and keep millions of Britons out of energy poverty.
Prince Harry was the first to leave Balmoral Castle this morning, where the eternal queen expired “calmly” yesterday afternoon. He arrived alone, without Meghan Markle, at the residence and has left alone, in the back seat of a dark SUV, visibly dejected. He covered his face with one hand and barely raised his head as the vehicle headed for the airport. The prince canceled his speech last night at the WellChild Awards in London, where Meghan has stayed with the purpose of respecting the privacy of the royal family, to urgently fly to Scotland. According to the ‘Daily Mail’, only Carlos and Princess Ana arrived at Balmoral in time to accompany Elizabeth II in her last hours. Camilla of Cornwall joined them. Meanwhile, the queen’s other children, Andrés and Eduardo, and her grandchildren, Guillermo and Enrique, failed to win the battle against the clock. Between the moment in which the doctors announced that the sovereign was “under medical supervision” until the moment in which Buckingham Palace announced that she had died “peacefully” at her summer residence, and also at her favorite place, only six hours. This morning, the Buckingham gate was covered with bouquets of flowers watered with tears.
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