The health of King Charles III He raised alarm bells in the United Kingdom since it was learned at the beginning of the year that he is battling cancer, the same disease that affects his daughter-in-law Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales. In recent hours, rumors about his condition have intensified.because Buckingham Palace updates the protocol for what would be the monarch’s funeral.
Carlos III is 75 years old and sought to bring peace of mind this Friday with the publication of a photo in which he is seen together with Queen Camilla, while he resumes his agenda after the news of his illness. In September 2022, he succeeded Queen Elizabeth II to the throne.his mother who died after the longest reign of the ancient British monarchy: 70 years.
Fairly, his mother had the first royal funeral in seven decadessince the death of her father, George VI, Charles’s grandfather, in 1952. Isabel’s was the last great royal funeral and is linked to other wakes, such as that of Queen Victoria, in 1901, or those of Lady, in 1997 and Prince Philip, Elizabeth’s husband, in 2021. In addition to the funerals of Winston Churchill in 1965 and Margaret Thatcher in 2012especially the first one.
The current king shares with his mother a name similar to the one used with her in the palace protocol to announce her death. The code phrase for Elizabeth II was “London Bridge has fallen.”. In fact, the press had leaked it well before September 8, 2022, when Isabel died at the age of 96. In the case of Carlos, there is talk of Operation Menai Bridge. The name refers to a suspension bridge in Wales.
Britons over 75 had no personal record of a king’s funeral until Elizabeth’s death. The long reign led to something never seen in seventy years, and which was prepared well in advance. Biology indicates that not many years will pass between that event and Carlos’s death, although the king’s illness seems to have accelerated the times.
The funeral of Victoria, who was Elizabeth’s great-great-grandmother, was the first of which there are film records of royalty.. The cinema was already six years old when the queen died in 1901, after 64 years on the throne. The splendor of her farewell was impressive, in keeping with the stature of the woman who became empress of India and who defined the second half of the 19th century with her name: the Victorian era.
Elizabeth II perhaps did not imagine that almost three quarters of a century would pass between her father’s funeral George VIin 1962, and his own. He had to return urgently from a visit to Kenya when they informed him of the death of the king who had faced the Second War. The coronation ceremony took place almost a year and a half later, in 1953, after a prudent period of mourning.
Winston Churchill died in 1965., which had a state funeral only reserved until then for royalty. Thousands of citizens paraded before his coffin at the Palace of Westminster, which houses Parliament. The funeral services were completed with the ceremony in St. Paul’s Cathedral.
After Churchill’s, the great funeral that followed was that of Lady Di. The unexpected death in a car accident of the ex-wife of the then Prince Charles plunged the country into grief. The monarchy then experienced its lowest popularity moment due to the queen’s initial coldness. The ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey, where the British kings rest.. There, Elton John sang “Candle in the wind.”
Within weeks of each other, Isabel said goodbye to her sister Margaret and her mother, the centenarian Queen Mother, in 2002. The British again had a convening funeral in 2013, when Margaret Thatcher ceased to exist at the age of 87.. The Baroness did not have a state funeral like Churchill’s. Of course, the framework was infinitely less moving and was marked by controversy: for many citizens, the late Iron Lady was the symbol of a neoliberalism that had devastated the Welfare State.
Philip of Edinburgh was a few weeks away from turning one hundred years old when he died in April 2021. His farewell was almost private, at a time when the United Kingdom and the rest of the world were devastated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Isabel and her children participated in a mass with few guests and with masks.
Almost a year and a half later, and already after the health crisis, the monarch died, who had a farewell in keeping with what marked her reign. Not two years have passed and there is already talk about what the next funeral of a king in the United Kingdom will be like.
