Strength and honor. She will have been queen until the end. Until her last breath, Elizabeth II will have done her duty as queen. A landmark amid the tumult, Elizabeth II was a beacon for the country, a point of reconciliation for her torn family.
Of the marital setbacks of Charles and Diana, to the Andrew scandal… in recent years, the queen has not been spared. On its end of life, it’s its own family she saw fall apart. A shame for the one who has always put the duty before all the queen. This is also what she tried to inculcate in her heirs: in Charles, who was too sensitive to her taste; to William, to whom from an early age she gave advice on how to become a good king, and Harry, the favorite grandson, but too rebel. Harry the black sheep of the family, to whom nothing has been forgiven. But if Elizabeth II took her grandsons under her wing after the death of Diana, she didn’t really look kindly on Harry going off the road.
Besides, when Harry meets Meghan Markle, a divorced American, the queen – learning the lessons of the Diana affair – will make the decision to authorize this union. Despite the difficulties, the queen and her cub were close. Thus, she had been able to see Archie and Lilibet, the children of Harry and Meghan via Facetime…
And, when Harry and Meghan Markle decide to leave the royal family, to stop being active members and to leave Great Britain for Canada, then the United States, it is she who will decide in the quick depriving them of their title of royal highness, a punishment that will be very badly experienced by the Sussex couple who intended to develop their small business “Sussex Royal”. More conciliatory, Prince Charles will agree to support them financially, in particular by financing their security for a year. Indeed, for Queen Elizabeth, Meghan and Harry showed a lack of sense of duty by putting their personal desires ahead of their duties.
Despite Harry’s attempts to retain certain privileges while leading a life away from the kingdom, Elizabeth II did not give in. While keeping a special relationship with Harry.