Three prime ministers in just one year, plus the Brexit chaos and the death of Queen Elizabeth: 2022 was an annus horribilis for Great Britain. Despite everything, people remain amazingly calm. Just how do they do it?essay by Alexander Mühlauer, LondonIt's a freezing cold winter evening in London, and guests are already waiting outside on Park Lane. And because we're in the UK, of course they're queuing up. Nobody would think of pushing ahead, not even at minus three degrees....
Today's King Charles can be seen close to the ground with his chickens (a fox will later kill 40 animals). Princess Margaret, 21, in a wedding dress of sorts by Dior (two years later her affair with the royal equerry is revealed, marriage impossible). And Peter Blake painted Elizabeth, the Queen grandmotherly in candy pink.If you want to learn something about monarchy, you can take the new book "Royals" to hand. It shows - Attention, royalists! - Glossy images of...
On the popularity scale, Princess Anne is just behind the Queen - and miles ahead of her brother, the new king. Nothing upsets her, not even an attempted kidnapping. source site
Of Claudia FrommeAs the Britannia was decommissioned, it was a historic moment. Not only because the royal yacht had carried the Queen and her family more than a million miles across the world's oceans until that December day in 1997, but also because the Queen wept publicly in Portsmouth. The statisticians at the British tabloid Hello! counted: She only showed such emotion during the 1966 landslide in Aberfan and at three commemorations for war heroes. And at the funeral of...
After the constant criticism of "The Crown", Netflix is now pointing out in writing that the series is a fiction. What we did to deserve this. source site
Charles III was already on September 10, 2022. was proclaimed King of Britain, and now the date of his coronation is set for May 6, 2023. Buckingham Palace announced this in a statement on Tuesday evening. The ceremony will take place at Westminster Abbey in London and will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury."The coronation will reflect the role of the monarch in the present and will look to the future," the palace letter said. At the same time,...
The name Elisabeth has held its own for centuries, also because many secondary forms have formed. And should he ever disappear, he will remain immortal, at least in the glory of an empress. After the Queen's death, the question arises as to how powerfully the noble name Elisabeth will still sparkle in the future. In Bavaria it will probably not be lost any time soon, where this name has asserted itself for centuries. However, at the price that strange secondary...
For the first time, the British mint Royal Mint has coins with the portrait of the new King Charles III. presented. The 73-year-old's profile will first appear on a new commemorative £5 and 50p coin commemorating Queen Elizabeth II, who recently died at the age of 96. According to an old tradition, the monarch looks to the right after his mother has turned her head to the left. The commemorative coins should be available from October. The 50p coins will...
Cool Cat: Brigitte Macronmay we introduce Macron, Brigitte Macron, in London the day before the Queen's funeral service. Looking like the bodyguards of your own bodyguards is a supreme discipline in a partner look. It takes sunglasses, jackets with a country-club-employee vibe, and, of course, sneakers. Exactly these were the cause of a veritable online shitstorm because the morality police felt they disrespected the Queen. As if one had to wear mourning on one's feet already on the journey. Online...
I had a piano lesson at the Queen's funeral. I felt relieved when my teacher offered not to cancel. Everything else was closed: shops, offices, restaurants... On the way to the teacher's house, my street in a north London suburb was as quiet as Israel on Yom Kippur. No traffic noise, no one on the road except for a young Slovak mother who was talking to her baby in the pram and talking to a relative on the phone at...
