Friday, March 29

The Windsor Civil War II



Anyone in the shoes of the King of England could describe the first hundred days of his reign as ‘calvarium’, including his ancestor Charles II, who hid in an oak tree to escape Cromwell’s Army after being defeated at Worcester in 1651, thus ending the Civil War between supporters of Parliament and the royalists. In the image that the British may have of that episode in the history of Carlos II and the tree, we could find some parallelism with today. In the official photograph of his 74th birthday, the new King leaned against another hundred-year-old oak, a symbol of life and immortality; sheltered in nature, for which he has fought so hard, dressed for the field, with a wooden cane, like a shepherd who contemplates from a distance the civil war of his own family. Although the concern in the United Kingdom is what it will cost to heat the house this winter, with a cold wave that has left the country frozen, and strikes because wages do not rise as much as inflation, the darkest issues in the house Windsor occupy the main headlines on a daily basis. Queen Elizabeth’s former chaplain, Gavin Ashenden, is the first to say that the British Royal Family is in a state of “civil war” and that we could be experiencing another “Diana moment.” “The danger is that Harry is continuing the same civil war that his mother started and Meghan also sees herself as a continuation of Princess Diana, she wears the same clothes, she has continued with the same style and she emulates her psychologically,” he says. ashenden. The enemy at home Precisely in one of the episodes of the global docuseries ‘Harry&Meghan’, the last three chapters of which Netflix released last Thursday, the Duke of Sussex underlines how much ‘Meg’, whom he met through Instagram, is It looks like Diana: “She has the same compassion, the same empathy (…) that warmth that characterizes her.” Others, however, compare her to a less loved character in the history of England, Wallis Simpson, also an American and divorced for whom Edward VIII had to abdicate. The first Christmas without the Queen is approaching and they are going to be bitter dates for Carlos, Camila, Guillermo and Kate, in suspense until they know exactly who Enrique is shooting at in his memories. ‘Spare’ (replacement), titled ‘En la sombra’ for the Spanish edition, will be published on January 10 in 16 languages. Before, the press and some of the millions of Britons who have seen the ‘H&M’ docuseries will analyze every word of the King’s first Christmas message, in which the ‘inner person’ will speak, as the Queen did. A message that ‘Haz’ and ‘Meg’ will follow on television, because nobody is waiting for them in Sandringham. The King has the enemy at home and those who have seen the series can understand why and the reasons for this war. “Having the enemy at home is very dangerous, the position of the monarchy is really very precarious at the moment because the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are much more in tune with the times and with the culture than the old King.” Damage to the institution 26 years have passed since their divorce, with the famous interviews: first Carlos confessing his infidelity and the later Princess Diana to Panorama, and this new war in the Windsor family is waged again on television and in the newspapers , although now the population takes sides in digital newspapers and networks. It began on March 7, 2021, one year after announcing that they were no longer active members of the Royal Family, with the statements to Oprah Winfrey that went around the world, revealing that a member of the family had made a comment about the color the couple’s first child would have. Although in ‘H&M’ they have not cleared up the mystery, the Queen’s former chaplain fears that the next accusations in the book will directly affect Carlos or Camila, “accusations that are like mud, that will stick to the King and not live long enough to get rid of them and they can cause you great harm. According to the last chapter of the docuseries, the targets could also be his brother Guillermo and Kate. If Queen Elizabeth always put duty before family, now her son’s duty is how to manage “an embittered couple determined to take revenge”, in the words of the former chaplain, and mitigate the damage caused to the institution, especially by the thorny The issue of racism, which occupies a large part of the docuseries and which has reopened the debate in the United Kingdom on whether or not there is racism in the Royal House. Since last year’s interview, ‘la Firma’ has been focused on neutralizing the version coming from the other side of the Atlantic. To give the best possible image of the monarchy, a campaign has been launched at all levels: from the deployment of 1,000 soldiers and 230 horses to receive the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, the first state visit with Carlos as King, until the numerous meetings with ethnic minorities such as the one on December 6 with the Sikh community in Luton, where seated in the lotus position and barefoot, his head covered by a handkerchief and the shawl they use to meditate, the King appeared with a sad face and a small leak in his left eye, which could be a sign of arterial hypertension. It is not for less because days before the feared premiere of ‘H&M’ and when the monarchy was already questioned for having racist overtones, Lady Susan Hussey, the godmother of Prince William, 83, an honorary member of the house and a lady-in-waiting for Queen Elizabeth, tendered her resignation after 60 years of service to the crown. Repeatedly asking ‘Where are you really from?’ (Where are you really from?) to the head of an anti-domestic abuse charity, a woman of color, was “unacceptable and deeply regrettable,” according to Buckingham. The heir and Kate were in the country where the Dukes of Sussex reside, chosen for their first official visit as Princes of Wales and as soon as the news broke, a Kensington spokesman stated that “racism has no place in our society.” The racism argument While William and Kate were having that hard time in Boston, others in California took advantage of the opportunity, as the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation had announced that Enrique and Meghan deserved an award for their “heroic” attitude against “structural racism” In the Royal House and with the heated atmosphere Netflix broadcast the expected trailer. In the United Kingdom, digital newspapers were fuming, although in the case of readers of ‘The Times’ we don’t know in which direction. After the news was published, the leading conservative newspaper in the south of England hid the more than 1,400 comments on its digital edition: “‘Comments for this article have been turned off'” (the comments on this article have been deactivated). Although the Queen dedicated her entire life to “serving the imperial family of which we are all a part”, as she said in her famous speech, and worked almost eternally to integrate all races, cultures and religions, just as she is doing her son Carlos, the Dukes of Sussex once again affect the racism of the institution. They are not only talking about the racist harassment that Meghan suffered from the press in the United Kingdom, which caused her depression and perhaps also an abortion, as they have revealed, but about something that can have serious consequences, such as remembering the slave-owning past of the monarchy. That in a documentary starring and produced by the son of a King it is stated that “the first commercial slave voyage made by Great Britain was personally financed by Queen Elizabeth I and Kings and Queens continued to finance it until its abolition in 1820″ is something unusual. . Struggle for popularity Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Leicester, Tom Frost, considers that all this will affect the ‘status quo’ of the Commonwealth: «Carlos is the King of thirteen other countries that are looking for an excuse to become a republic and get rid of the British monarchy, although I don’t think it directly affects the institution in the United Kingdom” and adds that “millions of people of African, Caribbean and South Asian origin have very legitimate reasons for not wanting the monarchy, because it was through her that Britain became involved in the slave trade.” As for whether there is racism in the Royal Family, “the whole country is”, there is “institutional racism (…), in the universities of the United Kingdom there are 230,000 academics and we only have 160 black professors and during the Covid, the probabilities of die if you were a person of color were five times higher.” Regarding the comment on the skin of the first son of the Dukes, he assures that these types of opinions “are not only maintained in the Royal Family, but throughout society, the royal family has to do a lot to counteract them, but a large part of the British society too. But this ‘civil war’ of the Windsors also conceals a struggle for popularity within the family, as the last chapters of the series reveal. Although the future of the monarchy depends on popular support and the new generations saw in the mixed-race princess a breath of fresh air for the monarchy, the story was too beautiful for the Hollywood actress to limit herself to having a secondary role.


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