The royal marriage celebrated Abbey Westiminster cosntitue the happy ending of a drama begun in the same place in 1997: the funeral of Diana, the "people's princess", in the words of Tony Blair. That day, the world has eyes only for the two young princes, William and Harry, weeping.
The British quarrel with their queen who failed to show that this tragedy touched beyond the grief of her grandchildren. Elizabeth II has always believed that Diana was no longer part of the family.Error! The people's anger and the wrath of the press - not just the tabloids - are so violent that the question of the future of the monarchy is asked.
Seen in the wonderful film by Stephen Frears "The Queen", the queen does not respond to heart-cons (clinging to its motto: "Never explain, never complain") and under pressure from his Prime Minister Tony Blair, who himself had felt perfectly well that something big was going on in the hearts of voters and British subjects. Queen hated. His revenge in 2011: Tony Blair (and his wife considered intimate enemy of the queen) is not even invited to the wedding.
Prince William has the profile that must be
Fourteen years later, the queen of the coast is rising at its highest.Why? The petulant princess has beautiful eyes, but there are especially the personality of William. He inherited his mother's natural charm, aristocratic simplicity that is not feigned. The taste of others without his side a little "nian nian," tearful and this weakness for public outpourings. William is modern, but it is a true Windsor. He did not weave the father, Prince Charles, but fled the press like the plague (he considers responsible for the death of his mother). This is not a revolutionary, far away. In her circle of friends, there are only blue blood - almost.
We hear the objection: he marries a commoner not? A college girlfriend Moreover, as so many kids his age? That is the genius of the thing.Because here is finally what was missing for rehabilitating the Windsor and closer to the people: some new blood in this family where impeccable aristocratic alliances have neither prevented nor misfortune scandals.
But there is a deeper explanation. This revival of the monarchy is a wave of conservatism that is not suspected at the time of Diana's death. Stephen Frears (again) shot "My Beautiful Laundrette", a film about the difficulties of assimilation of a Pakistani family (we said at the time Asia) to the model british.Today, brothers or son of the characters are called Muslims and it never ceases to wonder why some of them, although born subjects of His Majesty, educated in the best schools in the Kingdom, went to plant bombs in the subway train or parties in 2007 with Al-Qaeda to learn to kill British "white".
A UK more "British" than ever
The identity of "British" does she want to say something? Not only London has become a world city, but across the Channel, we willingly considers Scottish, Welsh or English - and less and less British.Strengthening the regional autonomy laws passed by New Labour may have been desired and needed, but the people disillusioned and begins to regret a golden age that the British crown is almost alone now to embody in all its sometimes cumbersome and his conservatism, just ...
For all these reasons, William embodies the hope of regeneration of the institution.
Unlike his father, he does not feel guilty about the fate of those who are not British long line.He enjoys hunting, Balmoral, the Anglican church, the army and the label without qualms, which distinguishes him from his mother's influence and sign the education of his grandparents who played a large role in their grief and that of Harry. It is consistent with this uneasy nostalgia that has gripped part of the British.
And everywhere the monarchy shows that embodies stability. Example? In Spain, when the Catalans grow to excess their particularism. In Belgium, where the crown is all that remains when there is no government long ago. In Arab countries, see how the monarchies better take the blow that all these dictators who wanted their son succeeding them.In short, monarchy, with a minimum of pomp, continues to intrigue its ability to overcome the trials anachronism.
And then the whole world envies not necessarily Angela Merkel who is shopping at the supermarket!
