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Queen Elizabeth received the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, exiled for two years on the other side of the Atlantic. The stability of the kingdom is at stake!
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From our correspondent in London, Marc Roche
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“Dn our family, there are no deep disagreements. Nothing but the occasional small quarrel, ”used to declare the late Princess Margaret about the crises that regularly shake royalty. Elizabeth II endorsed her sister’s reflection when she received her grandson Harry and Meghan, his wife, on April 14 at Windsor Castle. This surprise meeting underlines the determination of the 95-year-old sovereign to play the role of peacemaker within the Windsor clan in anticipation of the celebrations, at the beginning of June, of her platinum jubilee. If the monarch’s 70-year reign was marred by fierce battles of interests and egos as well as enmities, even hatred between members of his family, in the end, reason of state always prevailed. .
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