Royal biographer: 2019 year was one of the worst for Elizabeth II
'22.11.2019'
Source: Newspaper.ru
Royal year experts called the end of 2019 a disaster for Elizabeth II. It has already been compared to 1992, when a whole series of crises hit the family. This year, the relatives created the queen no less problems than then.
«BBC"Talks about how the Windsor spoiled its reputation.
Royal biographer Andrew Norman Wilson wrote a column for the Daily Mail tabloid stating that the 2019 year was much worse for Elizabeth II than the 1992 year, which became a formidable disaster for the royal family. Then, 27 years ago, the House of the Windsor for several months survived the divorce of Prince Andrew from Sarah Ferguson, the divorce of the daughter of Queen Anne and the publication of a frank biography of Princess Diana, which described the details of her unhappy marriage to the heir to the throne.
All this “crowned” the fire at Windsor Castle, which at the end of 1992 became a symbol of the end of the royal family’s well-being - besides, it caused public outrage because the British themselves sponsored the multi-million dollar restoration.
That November, Elizabeth II celebrated 40 years on the throne, and during the celebration she called the 1992 the “terrible year” in Latin and spoke very reservedly of it as “not the year she would remember with unconditional pleasure.”
Then, probably, the queen could not have imagined that she would turn out for 90, when relatives would create more problems for the family. Against this background, the behavior of the Dukes of Sussex will seem like cute childish whims. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle just did restoration of the Frogmore cottage in Windsor for a lot of money, tried to hide their child from the press, flew private planes to Nice and Cannes instead of vacation with the queen, and complained about their difficult fate, standing in one of the poorest areas of Africa. But they were not the only ones who resented the British.
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It all started with the fact that in January 97-year-old Prince Philip, who retired in 2017, provoked a car accident, as a result of which one woman broke her wrist and the other was hospitalized.
Philip, who prefers independent driving near Sandringham, the queen's suburban residence, could be responsible for the death of a small child who was also in the car into which the prince crashed.
This year, even the daughter of Princess Anne and the granddaughter of Elizabeth II Zara Tyndall excelled. The media said that she received annually about 100 thousand pounds from a millionaire from Hong Kong, Dr. Johnny Hon, as a donation. Subsequently, it turned out that Sarah Ferguson also received from him about 300 thousand pounds. Despite the fact that they all acted within the law, it seemed to the public that members of the royal family accept such large sums, and pay for them, for example, for protecting the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in October 2018, British taxpayers.
Perhaps the most severe blow to the reputation was the connection of Queen Andrew's second son, Prince Andrew, with multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, accused of pedophilia. The Duke of York was not only unable to adequately and promptly respond to the accusations made against him, but also gave a very awkward and frankly bad interview with the BBC. It is worth taking into account the fact that in the near future on the same channel there will be a conversation with a woman who claims that in adolescence she was forced to enter into an intimate relationship with the prince.
In this regard, experts on the affairs of the royal family have questions for the staff of the Queen's advisers - they suggest that he has recently changed, such dialogues with the press simply could not have been authorized by Buckingham Palace.
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It is hard to imagine that PR managers of past years could allow the appearance of interviews, especially now, when the scandal with Epstein ceased to excite everyone except the victims of his crimes.
According to Andrew Norma Wilson in the Daily Mail, most likely, the former palace administration would have simply issued a short and peremptory denial of the connection between the Queen’s son and the minor sex slave, and after that she would have strongly recommended that all Windsor be silent and not speak with reporters.
In a conversation with the BBC correspondent Emily Meitlis, Prince Andrew repeatedly said things that were strange to a famous person who was at the center of a sex scandal in 2019. Even if you believe in the words of the Duke of York that he does not remember meeting Virginia Roberts, claiming that they had numerous sexual contacts, it is difficult for viewers to understand why he never expressed sympathy to everyone who was a victim of Epstein. We can say that Windsor warmly remembered his late friend who committed suicide in a prison cell. The prince recalled that he was pleased to meet many business partners thanks to his American connections, and called the opportunity to stay in his friend’s numerous mansions “convenient.”
According to the duke, his only mistake was excessive "reverence."
Nowadays, there are practically no supporters of Prince Andrew - in social networks, material is gaining popularity, which indicates that denying a connection with a teenage girl forced to engage in prostitution, the prince blinked 10 times, which, according to those who study body language, shows that a person is lying.
The tabloids resumed the well-forgotten arguments that Andrew's elder brother, Prince Charles, would remember all the scandals and try to remove him from the news agenda as much as possible when he became king. This conflict between the brothers has been around for many years - it began with Charles’s dissatisfaction with Andrew’s work as the British trade envoy and his alleged obsession with money and influence. Most likely, this will affect the daughters of the prince, Beatrice and Eugenia, who will stop attending socially significant family events, because they are not actually close relatives of the future monarch.
